Taiwan's EU Office Rejects Beijing's Belgium Facebook Claim: Repetition Is Not Sovereignty

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The contest over Taiwan’s status is now being fought on Facebook, and that tells you something about where Beijing’s leverage actually runs out. On Friday the Chinese Embassy in Belgium posted to social media asserting that Taiwan is part of the People’s Republic of China and urging the Belgian public to back that position. On Saturday Taiwan’s representative office to the European Union and Belgium answered, and it did so in five languages — Mandarin, English, Dutch, French, and German. The reply was a single sentence sharpened to a point: repeating a narrative does not make it a fact.

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Taiwan's EU Office Rejects Beijing's Belgium Facebook Claim: Repetition Is Not Sovereignty