Taipei Cabinet spokesperson Lo Ping-Cheng released a statement on Monday, seeking to downplay individuals who have warned that “today’s Ukraine is tomorrow’s Taiwan.”
“In all areas, the two cannot be compared,” Lo stated, accusing people of “trying to inappropriately link Ukraine’s situation with Taiwan’s.”
The government official claimed individuals were seeking to use “this opportunity to manipulate the so-called (topic) of ‘today’s Ukraine, tomorrow’s Taiwan’” in an effort to disturb “people’s morale.”
Calling the comparison “inadvisable,” the government representative outlined positions taken by Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and Premier Su Tseng-chang.
The senior Taiwanese officials have repeatedly stated the island’s departments should step up efforts to combat “external forces using the Ukraine-Russia conflict to carry out cognitive warfare against us,” Lo stated.