[Politics] Ministry of Foreign Affairs: South African media falsely accuses Taiwan-Eswatini friendship, collaboration with China is self-evident
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South African media Swaziland News has again accused the Taiwan-Eswatini cooperative relationship. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) today (16th) strongly condemned the media for fabricating baseless accusations and emphasized that the editor-in-chief of the media recently visited China to meet with the spokesperson of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, making the "collaboration" relationship with China self-evident.
The MOFA issued a press release in the evening stating that domestic media cited Swaziland News on the 13th, accusing Taiwan's Ambassador to Eswatini, Liang Hong-sheng, of allegedly lobbying Eswatini parliamentarians to oust Eswatini Prime Minister Russell Dlamini through a vote of no confidence. It also claimed that Taiwan aided parliamentarians in winning elections by providing rice and other supplies, thereby defending Taiwan-Eswatini relations in parliament.
The MOFA sternly responded that Swaziland News has long systematically targeted the Eswatini government and the Embassy in Eswatini, spreading false and untrue information. The media disregards journalistic professionalism, willingly serving as a tool for China, with clear intentions to undermine the mutual trust and friendship between Taiwan and Eswatini. Its editor-in-chief, Zweli Martin Dlamini, was invited to visit China in mid-May this year and met with Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Guo Jiakun, indicating that the media's "collaboration" relationship with China is self-evident.
The MOFA stated that the media had previously accused Ambassador Liang Hong-sheng of involvement in multiple corruption cases on the eve of President Lai's visit to Eswatini this year, attacking Taiwan's government's diplomatic actions with fabricated and untrue information. Recently, as Taiwan-Eswatini relations have deepened further after President Lai's visit, the media has continued to use false reporting to attempt to divide the relationship between the two countries. The MOFA has repeatedly and sternly refuted and condemned these actions.
High-level exchanges between Taiwan and Eswatini are frequent and close, with bilateral relations based on mutual trust and respect for sovereignty, ensuring a strong and stable friendship. The accusations by Swaziland News are once again fabrications without factual basis, and the MOFA strongly condemns them again.
The MOFA expresses its strongest condemnation of China's malicious and relentless defamation of Taiwan's cooperative relations with its allies through specific media and information channels, attempting to weaken the international community's trust in Taiwan's diplomatic work. The MOFA urges the public not to be misled or divided by biased and speculative media reports, and inadvertently become a channel for disseminating cognitive warfare orchestrated by certain forces.
The MOFA calls for serious attention and joint condemnation from all sectors towards China's fake news supply chain, which, under the guise of news and freedom of speech, engages in malicious acts that harm democratic and free systems and violate journalistic ethics. (Editor: Liao Yiting)
Source Link: https://www.rti.org.tw/news?uid=3&pid=214901
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