President Biden has “a plan for the destruction of Taiwan?” Read our fact-check about how Beijing seized on a satirical joke written by a U.S. radio show host who works for Radio Sputnik.
Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry, currently led by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, said on February 22 that “the so-called ‘prominent radio show host in Washington, D.C.’ actuallythat WZHF-AM, the Washington, D.C. radio station Nixon works at, had to register as an agent of the Russian government.
“Rossiya Segodnya was even sanctioned by the Canadian government in 2022 for spreading false information during Russia’s war in Ukraine,” Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry wrote. “Not only does the radio show host work for Russian state media, his personal [Twitter] account is also full of various sensational and abusive posts directed at the U.S. government, which is obviously not a normal and reliable source of information.”
Asked on February 22 about Nixon’s “plan for the destruction of Taiwan” tweet, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs: “[I]f I understand your question correctly, there is nothing to this alleged report as you’ve tried to describe it to me.” Yet two days later, on February 24, China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Hua Chunying retweeted Nixon’s tweet and charged that the U.S. “doesn’t care who will be destroyed.”
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