Beijing calls Taipei’s denouncement of Fiji incident ‘a thief crying stop thief’

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on October 19 rejected Taipei’s denouncement of a recent clash in Fiji, calling it “a thief crying ‘stop thief’”.

Taiwan’s foreign ministry said two staff members of China’s embassy in Fiji had tried on October 8 to forcibly enter a reception held by the Taiwanese representative office and take photos of attendees. The mainland diplomats clashed physically with a Taiwanese staffer at the Grand Pacific Hotel event who tried to stop them and was later treated in hospital for concussion, according to Taiwan’s Central News Agency.

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