Taiwan’s foreign ministry accused China’s state-run tabloid of defaming its minister’s diplomatic European visits by categorizing them as “dollar diplomacy” and “dividing Europe’s Chinese policy.” Joseph Wu, the Taiwanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, visited Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Belgium for about a week in late October. During the trip, Wu received a Foreign VIP Laureates medal from the Czech senate, and invited a committee of the European Parliament, the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation, to visit Taiwan. The European lawmakers made their first official visit to Taiwan on Nov. 3. Chinese foreign ministry has called Wu a “Taiwan ‘independence separatist,'” and China’s state-run Global Times claimed Wu was “collud[ing] with external forces.” Taiwan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry published a statement on Oct. 29, which said that the Global Times smeared Wu’s visit without any fact nor evidence. “A state-run media …