A French senate delegation will visit Taiwan next week despite repeated objections from Beijing, including warnings by the Chinese ambassador to France that the trip would “needlessly disrupt” relations between their countries.
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying on Thursday said Beijing was “firmly opposed” to any official exchanges or contact between individual French senators and the authorities in Taiwan, a democratic island that Beijing claims as its own.
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