Taiwan claims China waging cyber 'war' against to disrupt fight against Coronavirus

Joseph Wu, Taiwan's foreign minister, on Saturday accused China of reportedly waging a cyber 'war' on Taiwan in order to disrupt its fight against Coronavirus. minister has accused Beijing of using fake news to spre disinformation on island that China claims as its own.

Battle against spre of Fake News

According to reports, recent Coronavirus outbreak has put pressure on alrey strained ties between Taipei and Beijing. Recently Beijing h blocked Taiwan's attempts at participating at  World Health Organisation (WHO) which has furr deteriorated ties between two nations.

As per reports, China sees Taiwan just as one of its provinces and believes that it does t have right to join WHO as an independent member. Taiwan has also called China 'vile' for t allowing dissemination of real-time information about virus from WHO to Taiwan. China claims that Taiwan receives all information that it requires.

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According to reports, fake news that China has tried to spre include things like claims that Taiwan is hiding true number of infected people on island and that it is much more than official figure and that members of ruling Democratic Progressive Party have received a priority on face masks. Taiwanese government was quick to refute se claims me by what y say is fake news.

Taiwan has reportedly anunced that it will punish those that spre fake information and has previously also claimed that China intentionally uses fake news in an attempt to undermine Tawan's democracy. On February 29, Taiwan reported five new Coronavirus cases bringing total number of infected on island to 39.

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(With ncy Inputs)