Speaking in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying dismissed any link between the issues of Ukraine and Taiwan.
“Taiwan is not Ukraine,” she said. “Taiwan has always been an inalienable part of China. This is an indisputable legal and historical fact.”
https://news.yahoo.com/taiwan-says-must-raise-alertness-082209933.html
In April 2021, The Economist described Taiwan as “the most dangerous place on Earth” on a magazine cover that reverberated across the country. Now, as Russian forces march into eastern Ukraine, commentators in the West believe Beijing might seek to emulate Moscow by launching its own invasion—but most Taiwanese disagree.
https://www.newsweek.com/how-russias-invasion-ukraine-playing-out-taiwan-amid-china-threat-1681324
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday said “echoes” of what happens in Ukraine “will be heard in Taiwan,” while US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on a trip to Australia earlier this month obliquely said “others are watching” the Western response to Russia, “even if it's half a world away in Europe.”
Concerns have been rising in recent years that a confident China under leader Xi Jinping may make a bold move to take control of Taiwan, and Beijing will likely be carefully monitoring the situation in Ukraine for signs of how Western powers respond — and just how severe those responses are.
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