French senator welcome to visit Taiwan, MOFA says By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter French Senator Alain Richard is welcome to visit Taiwan under COVID-19 quarantine measures, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday, as it condemned Beijing’s attempts to pressure Richard into canceling his trip. French newspaper La Lettre A on Monday reported that Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye (盧沙野) sent Richard a letter asking him to cancel a planned parliamentary trip to Taiwan this summer. Lu reportedly told the French senator that the trip would affect the “status quo” between Taipei and Beijing, while reasserting Beijing’s “one China” principle and that Taiwan is an “indivisible part of China.”