The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dismissed a report by China's state-run Global Times that claimed Taiwan has been bribing individuals in countries like Somaliland and the U.S. to facilitate bilateral relations. The Ministry said it's fake news spread by media affiliated with the shameless Chinese government.
Joanne Ou, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson："The Chinese government's Global Times published an untrue report on Oct. 11 about Somaliland and the Taiwan-US relationship. The report is entirely fabricated and baseless. It is an attempt to discredit and smear Taiwan. We severely condemn the Chinese state media and their public dissemination of fake news and urge other countries to ignore them."
MOFA said Taiwan and Somaliland have promoted programs including agriculture, information communications, education, and medical care since mutually establishing trade representative offices in 2020. All of these plans are transparent and legal. It also sincerely thanked Lithuania for its donation of vaccines, saying it treasures this friendship.
外交部發言人 歐江安表示：「中國政府，他們所屬的環球時報，在10月11日的時候，他們刊登了有關索馬利蘭，還有台美關係的不實的報導。那全篇的報導，都是憑空捏造造假，毫無根據，那就是抹黑跟汙衊台灣。我們對於中國官方的媒體，他們公然散布假新聞，我們予以嚴厲的譴責，並且呼籲各國予以唾棄。」
外交部表示，台灣與索馬利蘭自2020年互設代表處以來，兩國政府陸續推動包括農業、資通訊、教育及醫療等合作計畫，所有合作計畫公開、透明、合法，深獲索國各界及國際肯定。另外對於立陶宛兩度捐贈疫苗給我國，表達誠摯的感謝，也格外珍惜彼此的友情。
