TAIPEI, Taiwan—Communist China, which has long sought to internationally isolate Taiwan and eventually take over the island, has now taken issue with a Taiwan-themed play in France.
“This Is Not an Embassy,” a play directed by award-winning Swiss director Stefan Kaegi, recently staged three performances at Le Maillon theater in Strasbourg.
Before the performances began, the Chinese Consulate-General in Strasbourg wrote to both the theater and Strasbourg Mayor Jeanne Barseghian, asking them to cancel the show. Both refused, and Barseghian later went to the press, criticizing the action as “extremely serious” and an attack on artistic expression in the European nation….
French City Defies Beijing’s Demand to Cancel Taiwan-Themed Play
