The Chinese Communist Party is expressing outrage in multiple directions as the U.S. and France take shots at the People's Republic for both past transgressions and future machinations.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -China on Saturday criticised as a "double standard" attempts to link the defence of Ukraine with the need to protect Taiwan from a Chinese invasion - a thinly veiled reference to a speech by French Emmanuel Macron in Singapore on Friday night.

China hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday for drawing a connection between the Ukraine conflict and the fate of Taiwan, saying th