In a defiant move against China, seven members of the European Parliament have landed in Taipei for a three-day official mission to discuss disinformation and foreign electoral intervention.
The delegation, representing the main parties of the hemicycle in Brussels, is led by Raphaël Glucksmann, a socialist French MEP who chairs the parliament's special committee on foreign interference in democratic processes. Glucksmann was blacklisted by China in March when Beijing and Brussels engaged in a tit-for-tat exchange of sanctions.
The other six lawmakers are Andrius Kubilius (Lithuania) and Georgios Kyrtsos (Greece) from the centre-right European People's Party (EPP); Andreas Schieder (Austria) from the socialist formation; Petras Auštrevičius
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