BCB in Brief: Australian parliamentarians to attend Taiwan's presidential inauguration
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What happened
On 16 May, the ABC reported that a group of up to four Australian federal parliamentarians will attend the 20 May inauguration of Lai Ching-te as Taiwan’s next president.
The Chinese Embassy in Canberra issued a statement on 15 May criticising the visit and claiming that it “violate[s]” the “political foundation of China-Australia relations.”
Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade rejected China’s “incorrect assertions” and said that the visit is “consistent with Australia’s one-China policy and with past practice.”
