China’s Foreign Ministry announced countermeasures against Paraguay’s Minister of Communications and Technology Villate and Belize’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, Education, Culture, Science and Technology Fonseca. The decision was published on October 12.
On the same day, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular briefing that China would take all necessary punitive measures against people who persistently support forces advocating Taiwan independence.
Mao said certain politicians from Paraguay and Belize had acted as pieces in the Taiwan authorities’ efforts to seek independence with foreign support, visited Taiwan and received advocates of Taiwan independence. She described this as interference in China’s domestic affairs and said they had spread false information about Chinese cyberattacks and smeared China.
