The Chinese regime is complaining about a visit by three U.S. senators to Taiwan on a C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft. What the Americans said was a humanitarian visit to deliver COVID-19 vaccines, Beijing’s media mouthpiece portrayed to the Chinese-reading world as a provocation and a trick by Taipei to maintain its rule.
“What [the Taipei authorities] want to do most is to divert people’s attention … from the conflict between DPP (Democratic Progressive Party) government and Taiwanese people to the conflict across the strait,” Chinese state-run tabloid Global Times stated in commentary on June 6, without mentioning what is the public’s dissatisfaction with the DPP.
