The Taiwan MFA considers its country a sovereign country that is not subordinate to the mainland PRC. The ministry expressed strong protest on its website to Russian President Vladimir Putin's September 27 speech at a plenary session of the Valdai international discussion club.

"The Chinese Communist regime has not ruled Taiwan for a single day and has no sovereignty over Taiwan. The future of Taiwan must be decided by its 23.5 million residents, and the government and people of Taiwan will not yield to the military, political and economic coercion of the totalitarian Chinese government," the report said.

Taiwan is confident that Putin and his officials are deliberately using the Taiwan issue as an excuse to "confuse the international audience and divert attention from Russian aggression against Ukraine."

Taipei also promised to continue supporting Ukraine and helping the Ukrainian people.

Putin said the day before that Russia considers Taiwan to be an integral part of China, and that U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island was a provocation.

The Taiwan issue has been an open one since 1949, when the Communist People's Republic of China was proclaimed on the mainland and the former Kuomintang party fled to Taiwan. In 2022 the situation in the region escalated due to visits of American delegations to the island, despite protests from China.