A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Thursday denounced Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority for suggesting the mainland spoiled the island's purchase of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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CHINA / SOCIETY By Global Times Published: Feb 18, 2021 07:44 PM
File Photo: Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council. Photo:Xinhua
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council slammed rumors that the Chinese mainland pressured German Biotech company BioNTech (BNT) not to sell COVID-19 vaccines to the island, saying that the Taiwan authorities complaint of a so-called difficult situation is untenable and results from its own anti-mainland political maneuvers.
The allegation of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority is totally fabricated and false, which once again exposed the bottomless political nature of some DPP politicians, said Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, at a press conference on Thursday.
Taiwan s accusations of vaccine obstruction groundless: Spokesman By ZHANG YI | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-02-18 20:57 Share CLOSE
Taiwan s claim that the Chinese mainland obstructed it from buying COVID-19 vaccine products from a German company is groundless, said Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, on Thursday.
The island originally planned to order 5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Germany s BioNTech, and the mainland obstructed it from signing the deal with the company, Chen Shih-chung, head of the island s epidemic command center, said recently. The island s claim is totally groundless and irresponsible, which once again exposes the unethical and bottomless political nature of some politicians from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party on Taiwan, Ma said.
A speech by Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday spread the "two states" theory that defines cross-Straits ties as a state-to-state relationship, which was "deceiving people on the island by distorting facts and confusing the public", said Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.