China responded angrily Tuesday to Lithuania’s plans to open a “Taiwanese Representative Office,” recalling its ambassador from Vilnius and demanding that Lithuania withdraw its envoy for according even that limited level of recognition to the self-governing island democracy.
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China responded angrily Tuesday to Lithuania’s plans to open a “Taiwanese Representative Office,” recalling its ambassador from Vilnius and demanding that Lithuania withdraw its envoy for according even that limited level of recognition to the self-governing island democracy.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) yesterday called for relations with China to be returned to a state of “no unification, no independence and no use of force,” and proposed the establishment of a committee on the development of peace across the Taiwan Strait.
Chiang made the remarks at the KMT’s weekly Central Standing Committee meeting in Taipei the final one over which he would preside before taking a leave of absence next week to campaign for re-election as KMT chairman.
He began his address by thanking the nation’s delegation for its success at the Tokyo Olympic Games, which
Taiwan is to grant visas to an estimated 13,000 foreign students before schools open next month, Minister of Education Pan Wen-chung (潘文忠) said yesterday at a news conference in Taipei after a reporter asked about the status of international students amid a nationwide level 2 COVID-19 alert.
The visas are to be granted to those studying for a degree and people enrolled in Chinese-language scholarship programs, but not exchange students or those in short-term language classes, Pan said.
The ministry’s plans for international students were approved last week at a meeting of government agencies, with COVID-19 prevention being the main concern, he