Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša recently revealed that Slovenia is negotiating with Taiwan on the establishment of representative offices, and expressed support for Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Organization, criticizing mainland China for no reason to prevent other countries from establishing economic and trade relations with Taiwan. Although Yang Sa strongly supports Taiwan, his behavior is extremely controversial, and he is known as Trump Jr.
Yangsa is a representative of the Sri Lankan right-wing party and a fan of former US President Trump. In 2020, he sent a message to congratulate Trump on his re-election without the result of the general election. Last year, he was dissatisfied with the way the Slovenian News Agency (STA) reported the new crown epidemic and once refused to approve the payment to the agency. Many European Parliament members criticized Yangsa for suppressing freedom of speech. Some members even went to the local area to assess the rule of law in Slovenia. , press freedom and the effectiveness of the fight against corruption.
At the time, Jansa tweeted in response: “Who are you? How many times have you visited the German Chancellor, the Dutch Chancellor, or the French President?” The killing happened in the Netherlands”, alluding to the July incident in which well-known Dutch social journalist Peter R. de Vries was shot and killed in the street.
Dutch Prime Minister Rutte denounced Jansa for being “indecent” and protested to the Slovenian ambassador to the Netherlands; Jansa was not to be outdone: “That, Mark (in the name of Rutte), don’t be in the ambassador’s (protest) and Time wasted on press freedom in Slovenia… Protect your journalists from being killed in the street”.
Jansa scolded Dutch Prime Minister Rutte.
In December, the European Parliament voted to pass a resolution condemning Jansa’s interference in press freedom. If Yang Sa, a prime minister with a poor image in Europe, said that he supported Taiwan, could he really win international support for Taiwan?
Taiwan’s “United Daily News” described Yang Sa’s support for the people of Taiwan in determining their own future. It sounds good, but in fact it is not sincere. Yang Sa’s attitude towards the media is not only very similar to Trump, but also has a similar relationship with the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party. Similar, because the Taiwan authorities are not satisfied with the TV station’s remarks, they have used various reasons to shut down Zhongtian TV.
“United Daily News” mentioned that Yang Sa did not agree to Taiwan’s establishment of an embassy in Sri Lanka, showing that the Yang Sa government still takes the one China as the framework, but only pushes up the exchanges of substantive economic and trade relations and allows politically significant exchanges. The establishment of the representative office, even if there is a crisis in the Taiwan Strait, and Slovenia is far away on the other side of the world, as long as there are major Western powers supporting the right-wing parties in Slovenia, Slovenia will not be directly affected. Behaving with ulterior motives, very cunning.
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