The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is slamming China's decision to sanction two
ministers from Taiwan's diplomatic allies.

This, after China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs described Belize's Foreign
Minister Francis Fonseca and Paraguay's Minister of Information Gustavo
Villate as "anti-China politicians" and barred them from entering China.

Beijing called the two officials "pawns" who have smeared Beijing... but did
not say why the two ministers were singled out.

Taipei's foreign ministry describes Beijing's sanctions as "preposterous" and
a "blatant interference in other countries' sovereignty and diplomacy."

It adds action is evidence of China's "futile attempt to deploy political
intimidation and transnational repression to coerce other countries into
submission to its political agenda."

The move is seen as symbolic, since ministers from Taiwan's diplomatic
​allies generally don't travel to China