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Taiwan Fires Back after Elon Musk Calls It ‘Integral Part of China’

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Taiwan foreign minister Joseph Wu speaks after receiving the Silver Commemorative Medal of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in Prague, Czech Republic, October 27, 2021.

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The Taiwanese government fired back at Elon Musk after he called the island country “an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China” on a recent podcast.

“Hope @elonmusk can also ask the #CCP to open @X to its people. Perhaps he thinks banning it is a good policy, like turning off @Starlink to thwart #Ukraine’s counterstrike against #Russia,” Taiwanese foreign minister Joseph Wu said today on X, which Musk owns.

Jimmy Quinn

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Jimmy Quinn

Jimmy Quinn is the former national security correspondent for National Review.

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