China on Saturday condemned the act of a Bharatiya Janata Party leader putting up pro-Taiwan posters outside the Chinese Embassy in Delhi, and said that “hundreds of posters celebrating the national day of Taiwan hung outside Chinese Embassy will only exasperate already soured China-India ties”.

“Hundreds of posters celebrating the ‘national day’ of Taiwan island hung outside China’s Embassy to India in New Delhi will only exasperate already soured China-India ties,” Chinese experts warned on Saturday through an editorial in Global Times, further urging “India’s ruling party to give up its irrational behaviour and to realise it is playing with fire”.

The harsh comments came after BJP Delhi leader Tajinder Pal Sigh Bagga tweeted photographs of posters wishing Taiwan on their National Day.

The staff at the Chinese embassy in Delhi woke up to the posters, proving to be a major embarrassment to their master in Beijing amid a bitter stand-off between Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control near eastern Ladakh.

Bagga hits back

The BJP leader later in the day hit back at China over the threat and said that this was just the beginning and there’s more to come.

“When your President came to India last year, we greeted him with highest tradition of Atithi Devo Bhava. But your country backstabbed us in Ladakh. U broke Trust.U started playing with fire.U worsened relation. We have just started Paying Back with Interest. MORE TO COME…WAIT & WATCH,” he said in his response.

China’s ‘warnings’

The Chinese mission in Delhi had on October 7 warned Indian media to not address Taiwan as a “country” or a “nation”, and also not recognise Tsai Ing-wen as President of Taiwan in line with their ‘One-China’ policy.

“Taiwan shall not be referred to as a “country (nation)” or “Republic of China” or the leader of China’s Taiwan region as “President”, so as to not send wrong signals to the general public,” the Chinese Embassy had said.