A spokesperson at the Chinese embassy in the UK issued an angry statement on Ms Truss’s visit on Wednesday, urging her to 'correct her wrongdoing' and to 'stop making political shows' Taz_Ali_ reports
The editorial said that the UK government could not disassociate itself from Ms Truss, who remains an MP, and “needs to share the consequences and costs caused by it”.
In Beijing, a spokesperson for the cabinet’s Taiwan affairs office, Mao Xiaoguang, accused Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party of “spending the tax money of the Taiwanese people to bribe some anti-China politicians who have stepped down from office to stage a farce of seeking external support for independence in Taiwan”.
There were no comments from the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Ms Truss’s trip during a briefing on Tuesday.when the Taiwanese President, Tsai Ing-wen, visited US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last month. In the run-up to that trip, China repeatedly warned Mr McCarthy not to “repeat disastrous past mistakes”, in reference to his predecessor, Nancy Pelosi, visiting Taiwan in August last year, becoming the first House speaker to do so in 25 years.
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