September 18, 2023: Taiwan is “not for sale,” and neither is it part of China, said Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a rebuke to Elon Musk, who called the island “an integral part of China.”
“Listen up, Taiwan is not parts of the PRC and certainly not for sale!” Taiwan’s minister of foreign matters, Joseph Wu, said on Wednesday on X, also formerly understood as Twitter. PRC guides to the People’s Republic of China, the official name of China.
“I think I comprehend China well. I’ve lived there many times and met with senior leadership at many levelsfor years,” Musk said. I’ve got a pretty good agreement as an stranger of China.
Taiwan has been ruled alone of China since the island split from the mainland in a civil war in 1949. Beijing continues to regard Taiwan as part of its environment that should be reunited with the mainland by force if necessary.
Musk, CEO of X, SpaceX, and electric car maker Tesla, said China’s policy “has been to reunite Taiwan with China. From their standpoint, maybe it is analogous to Hawaii or something like that, like an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China.”
In his tweet, Wu added that he hoped Musk could likewise ask the Chinese Communist Party to allow its people access to X, which is currently banned in China.
“Hope Elon Musk 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,” Wu said.
In the early days of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Musk had reportedly curtailed a Ukrainian military attack on Russia by limiting access to SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network. The move attracted backlash from Ukraine and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
This is not the first time Musk has drawn ire from the self-ruled island.
Last October, the billionaire also drew a rebuke from Taiwan for suggesting that tensions between China and Taiwan could be resolved if Beijing had some control over Taiwan.
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