China lodges complaint over S Korean president’s Taiwan comments

China has criticised remarks by South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who said the issue of Taiwan was of global importance, like issues regarding North Korea [File: Kim Hong-ji/Reuters]

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong has lodged a complaint with South Korea’s ambassador to Beijing over “erroneous” remarks by the South Korean president about Taiwan, China’s foreign ministry says.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s remarks were “totally unacceptable”, Sun told the ambassador, and he also expressed “strong dissatisfaction”, according to a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement on Sunday.