SINGAPORE: China on Saturday criticised as a “double standard” attempts to link the defence of Ukraine with the need to protect Taiwan from a Chinese invasion – a thinly veiled reference to a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in Singapore on Friday night.
As part of a broader address on the risks of division between China and the United States, Macron told the Shangri-La Dialogue defence meeting that if Russia was allowed to take any part of Ukraine without constraint then, “what could happen in Taiwan?”.
In a Facebook post, China’s embassy in Singapore said that comparing the Taiwan issue with the Ukraine issue is “unacceptable”.