Event: China

“No matter how China uses political power to interfere with normal international civil aviation operations, politicising and weaponising flight information ... it will not make Taiwan bow its head, nor will it stop our progress,” Taiwan's Foreign Minister Lin Chia-Lung said. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung on a visit to Eswatini slammed China’s recent move to pressure several African countries into revoking overflight permits for the island’s leader, saying it will not “bow its head.”Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te postponed an official trip to Eswatini, the island’s only diplomatic ally, last week after “Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar unexpectedly and without prior notice revoked the charter’s overflight permits”. Published - April 26, 2026 11:22 pm IST