“It is strange to hear an absurd version of the ‘history of Crimea’ from a representative of a country that is scrupulous about its thousand-year history,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, said in a tweet on Sunday.
Seems like putting things into a longer historical perspective is exactly what one would expect ‘of a country that is scrupulous about its thousand-year history’. What Lu Shaye said about Crimea or the Baltic States isn’t much different to what is sometimes said of Taiwan or Tibet or Manchuria.
There is a criticism to be made of Lu Shaye’s comments, but this isn’t it, Podolyak. Unfortunately, international law is a strange creature, so Lu Shaye could technically be right, but it’d always be open to interpretation.
The row comes ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday, where relations with China are on the agenda.
Seems like putting things into a longer historical perspective is exactly what one would expect ‘of a country that is scrupulous about its thousand-year history’.
What Lu Shaye said about Crimea or the Baltic States isn’t much different to what is sometimes said of Taiwan or Tibet or Manchuria.There is a criticism to be made of Lu Shaye’s comments, but this isn’t it, Podolyak. Unfortunately, international law is a strange creature, so Lu Shaye could technically be right, but it’d always be open to interpretation.😯 What fortuitous timing!
Edit: the reported story twists the facts.