Asia News
Date: 10/29/2020
Zhu Fenglian, from the Taiwan Affairs Bureau, was slamming the new US arms sale in Taipei when
Beijing (AsiaNews) – Yesterday, a reporter’s question unnerves Zhu Fenglian, spokeswoman for Taiwan Affairs Office of the Chinese State Council, if China and Taiwan are in a state of "quasi war".
The official was answering a series of questions about the US approval of a new arms package for the island, the second in a week, worth a total of US$ 4.2 billion dollars.
The issue began with Chao Chien-min, dean of social sciences at Chinese Culture University in Taipei, who had said that China and Taiwan had entered a “quasi-war status”.
When asked about it, Zhu kept flipping through her notes in silence for 30 seconds before awkwardly asking reporters to move on to other questions first. [FULL STORY]