In a series of tweets during the trip, Mr Wallace said the BBC should be labelled as “state funded media” and posted a photo of an everyday scene in a park in the city of Chengdu, or “what some Western Media would describe as the ‘Oppressed Masses’”.
Irish MEP Mick Wallace said during a television interview shared by Chinese official government accounts that 'Taiwan is part of China'Ireland South MEP Mick Wallace capped a nine-day trip to China with political ally Clare Daly by revealing a new tattoo on state television.
It came during the latest of a series of interviews in which the two affirmed Chinese government talking points during a crucial week for diplomacy between Brussels and Beijing. “It’s actually my first tattoo, and I got it in Xi’an,” Mr Wallace told China’s official state news agency during an interview that was approvingly shared on social media by China’s ambassador to the EU and its foreign ministry’s European affairs chief.
The former Wexford TD showed the camera the black lettering across his wrist, which said “no war” in Chinese.
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