Flag of Taiwan. File photoBEJING, Aug 21Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called a fake screenshot of the «correspondence» of the island's Foreign Ministry with Volodymyr Zelensky on Twitter, which was circulated in the media in early August. «, — said in a statement published on Saturday on the website of the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The statement explains that earlier a screenshot was circulated in foreign media, in which a user under the nickname Volodymyr Zelensky and with a photo of the Ukrainian president on his avatar left a comment under the post of the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry dated August 4 condemning the start of large-scale military exercises by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) around the island. In a comment, Zelensky wrote «Taiwan, we are with you!», to which the Foreign Ministry replied, «Who are you?» Recently, some foreign media who did not know that the screenshot was a fake reported that the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry did not recognize the President of Ukraine in the comments on to his Twitter post. We would like to inform you that the conversation in question never took place and the screenshot is a fake created in Photoshop,» the statement reads. .jpg» />Media: Xi Jinping asked Biden to keep Pelosi from traveling to TaiwanChinese People's Liberation Army exercises in various areas, including the sea and airspace around Taiwan, have not stopped since the beginning of the month, they were a response to the visits of American delegations to the island, August 2-3 Taiwan was visited by a delegation led by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, and on August 14-15 by a delegation led by Senator Ed Markey. Official relations between the central government of the PRC and its island province were interrupted in 1949, after they were defeated in the civil war with the Communist Party of China, the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation. announced a live firing exercise in the East China Sea
