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Image source, Taipei Trade Office
About 100 delegates were invited to the event in one of the most luxurious hotels in Fiji.
Persistent tensions between China and Taiwan erupted after a fight between their diplomats in Fiji.
Taiwan accused two Chinese embassy officials of “uninvited but” at an event celebrating Taiwan’s national day earlier this month, something Beijing denied.
Both sides said their officials were injured in the clash and demanded that the Fiji police investigate.
China views Taiwan as a separatist province, but Taiwan’s leaders say it is a sovereign state.
Relations between the two parties sharpened and there was a risk of a violent outbreak that could lead to the United States, an ally of Taiwan.
The latest incident is said to have occurred on October 8 when the Taiwan Chamber of Commerce in Fiji, the country’s unofficial embassy, treated about 100 guests at the luxurious Grand Pacific hotel. Suva, the capital of Fiji.
The Taiwanese Foreign Ministry alleged that two Chinese officials had started taking photographs and trying to gather information about the guests. The Taiwanese diplomats who asked them to leave were attacked and wounded in the head and had to be hospitalized.
“We strongly condemn the actions of the Chinese embassy staff in Fiji for the gross violation of the rule of law and civilized diplomatic standards of conduct,” said Joanne Ou, spokeswoman for the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
China offered another interpretation of the event. The Chinese embassy in Fiji said its staff were in “public areas outside the event venue” to perform “official duties” and accused Taiwanese officials of taking action. “provokes” and inflicts “injury and damage to a Chinese diplomat”.
China’s Foreign Ministry, in a press conference on Monday, revealed that its officials were aware of what happened within the event, including a cake-shaped Taiwanese flag, that the sutras are a betrayal because they do not recognize to Taiwan as a country.
“A cunning national flag was publicly displayed at the event, the cake was also marked with a cunning national flag,” spokesman Zhao Lijian told the AFP news agency.
Beijing has long tried to limit Taiwan’s international activities, and both are struggling for influence in the Pacific region.
Fiji police have yet to comment on the investigation.
Although Taiwan is officially recognized by only a handful of countries, its democratically elected government has strong commercial and informal ties with many countries.
