Chinese President Xi Jinping | Stock Image | Photo credit: AP
Key points
- With great shame, staff at the Chinese embassy in Delhi woke up to the posters on Saturday.
- Bagga responded to China for the threat and said this was just the beginning and there is more to come.
- The Chinese mission in Delhi on October 7 warned Indian media not to target Taiwan as a “country” or a “nation.”
Beijing / New Delhi: China on Saturday condemned the act of a Bharatiya Janata Party leader placing pro-Taiwan posters in front of the Chinese Embassy in Delhi, saying that “hundreds of posters celebrating Taiwan’s national day hung in front of the Chinese Embassy alone They will exasperate China-India and sour neckties. “
“Hundreds of posters celebrating the island of Taiwan’s ‘national day’ hanging in front of the Chinese embassy in India in New Delhi will only exasperate the already sour China-India ties,” Chinese experts warned Saturday through an editorial in Global times, further urging the “ruling party of India to abandon its irrational behavior and realize that it is playing with fire.”
The harsh comments came after BJP Delhi leader Tajinder Pal Sigh Bagga tweeted photos of posters wishing for Taiwan on its National Day.
Chinese embassy staff in Delhi woke up to the posters, which proved to be a great embarrassment to their teacher in Beijing amid a bitter clash between Indian and Chinese troops along the Royal Line of Control near the east. of Ladakh.
Bagga strikes back
Later, the BJP leader responded to China for the threat and said that this was just the beginning and that there is more to come.
“When your president came to India last year, we greeted him with the highest Atithi Devo Bhava tradition. But your country stabbed us in the back in Ladakh. U broke trust, started playing with fire, made the relationship worse. We have just started paying back the money with interest. MORE TO COME … WAIT AND LOOK, “he said in his response.
China’s ‘warnings’
The Chinese mission in Delhi on October 7 warned Indian media not to address Taiwan as a “country” or a “nation”, and also to not recognize Tsai Ing-wen as President of Taiwan in line with its policy of ” One Chinese”.
“Taiwan will not be referred to as a” country (nation) “or” ROC “or the leader of the Taiwan region of China as a” President “, so as not to send incorrect signals to the general public,” the Embassy said. from China said.
