China lodges complaint over South Korean president's Taiwan remarks

Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attends a meeting between the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, and South Korean business leaders during a Japan-Korea Business Roundtable meeting in Tokyo, Japan on Mar. 17, 2023. EPA-EFE/Philip Fong/pool" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/life/04/23/south-korean-president-yoon-suk-yeol-epa.jpg"/><figcaption>South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attends a meeting between the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, and South Korean business leaders during a Japan-Korea Business Roundtable meeting in Tokyo, Japan on Mar. 17, 2023.<em> EPA-EFE/Philip Fong/pool</em></figcaption></figure></div><p><br/>BEIJING — China on Sunday said it had lodged a complaint with Seoul over South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol&#x27;s &quot;erroneous&quot; remarks about Taiwan, as a diplomatic spat simmers between the Asian neighbors.</p><p>Beijing and Seoul have traded barbs over a Reuters interview with Yoon this month, in which he called tensions between China and Taiwan a &quot;global issue&quot; similar to North Korea and blamed recent heightened tensions on &quot;attempts to change the status quo by force&quot;.</p><p>China claims self-ruled, democratic Taiwan as its territory and has vowed to bring the island under its control one day, with Beijing insisting that its dealings with Taipei are purely internal matters.</p><p>The Chinese foreign ministry said Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong had been ordered on Thursday to make a &quot;solemn representation&quot; to the South Korean ambassador over Yoon&#x27;s comments.</p><p>Sun told the ambassador Yoon&#x27;s remarks were &quot;totally unacceptable&quot; and expressed &quot;strong dissatisfaction,&quot; the ministry said.</p><p>China&#x27;s statement comes ahead of Yoon&#x27;s state visit to key ally the United States, which Beijing has blamed for arming Taiwan and encouraging pro-independence politicians.</p><p>The Taiwan question is a matter &quot;belonging to the Chinese themselves and no force can be allowed to interfere,&quot; Sun said, urging Seoul to &quot;adhere to the One-China Principle and be careful in words and actions relating to the Taiwan issue&quot;.</p><p>China&#x27;s foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin had previously criticized Yoon&#x27;s remarks, calling it a &quot;universally known fact&quot; that the Taiwan issue was not comparable to tensions on the Korean Peninsula.</p><p>This prompted South Korea&#x27;s foreign ministry on Thursday to berate China for its &quot;serious diplomatic discourtesy&quot;.</p><p>Tensions have escalated in the Taiwan Strait in recent years, with China launching military exercises earlier this month after Taiwan&#x27;s President Tsai Ing-wen visited the United States.</p><p>© Agence France-Presse</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k30FdeYZ3P4?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

China on Sunday said it had lodged a complaint with Seoul over South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's 'erroneous' remarks about Taiwan.

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China lodges complaint over South Korean president's Taiwan remarks

China lodges complaint over South Korean president's Taiwan remarks

Agence France-Presse

Published Apr 23, 2023 02:48 PM PHT

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