China Bristles at French President Linking Ukraine Defence to Taiwan Threats

China on May 31 criticised as "double standard" attempts to link the defence of Ukraine with the need to protect Taiwan from a Chinese invasion — a thinly veiled reference to a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in Singapore on the night of May 30.

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As part of a broader address on the risks of division between China and the United States, Mr Macron told the Shangri-La Dialogue defence meeting that if Russia was allowed to take any part of Ukraine without constraint, then "what could happen in Taiwan?"

In a Facebook post, China's embassy in Singapore said that comparing the Taiwan issue to the Ukraine issue was "unacceptable".

"The two are different in nature and not comparable at all," the post said, adding that Taiwan was entirely an internal affair for China.