[2] But this authority has been temporarily transferred to Taipei representative office in Warsaw on 26 February 2022 due to the outbreak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

With the onset of the Cold War, the legitimate representative of China in the United Nations became a point of dispute between member states.

[3] After the session, the General Assembly passed Resolution 1668, declaring that any proposal to change the representation of China at the United Nations would require two-thirds majority vote.

Qian Fu and Chiang Hsiao Yen decided to provide aid in kind instead of direct money to the United States.

Since there is no direct flight between Taiwan and Ukraine, the Boeing 747s were transported from Vladivostok, Russia, back to the Keelung Harbor and arrived in Kyiv by a tortuous voyage.

In the afternoon of April 7, Yu Zhenqi learned from a newspaper that Chang Hsiao-yen would arrive in Kyiv on the same day and that an agreement on the establishment of a diplomatic mission might be reached.

Yu Zhenqi made an urgent appointment with Ukrainian First Deputy Foreign Minister Makarevich to make representations.

Ukraine, soon after independence, suffered from economic difficulties, and there were still some pro-Taiwan Ukrainian MPs and economists who advocate establishing diplomatic relations with Taiwan in exchange for aid.

[9] In order to avoid Chinese protests, Lien Chan's trip was completely concealed, so much so that the Taiwanese media did not even know which foreign city he was visiting, with some newspapers mistakenly thinking it was Munich, Germany or Budapest, Hungary, and only the United Daily News guessed it was Kyiv.

Also in contrast to the United States, where American people hated the press media and supported the government's exclusion of reporters during major events.

[1]: p.5–6 When the Chinese government learned of the incident afterwards, it took an unusually tough stance and launched a series of fierce diplomatic retaliations against Ukraine.

However, Lien Chan's visit also resulted in a strong stance by China, which in turn limited the development of relations between Ukraine and Taiwan.

[1]: p.5–6 After the Orange Revolution, Chen Shui-bian learned that Viktor Yushchenko had been elected president of Ukraine, and the Taiwanese government sent a telegram to congratulate him.

[3]: 196 The Chen administration initially admired the Yushchenko government, even going so far as to include an orange scarf presented by David Kilgour, a member of Canada's federal House of Commons, as a presidential artifact.

In December 2005, Taiwan's Deputy Secretary of the Presidential Office Huang Chi-fang accepted an invitation from Ukrainian MP Viktor Pinchuk to visit the country.

[14] On 22 April 2022, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan Joseph Wu held a meeting via video conferencing with Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko.

[16] In August 2022, 15 MPs of the Verkhovna Rada became part of a cross-parliamentary group to promote closer friendship, trade, and cultural ties with Taiwan.

Early in the conflict Ukrainian forces ordered 800 mortar dropping drones from Taiwanese manufacturer DronesVision through Polish intermediaries.

[20] On 24 August 2023, the Ruta Kindergarten [zh] was opened in Irpin, it was first joined humanitarian aid project led by Taiwan and Lithuania.

[21] On his five-day visit to Taiwan, Sadovyi thanked the Taiwanese government for its new US$5 million donation to renovate a rehabilitation center in Lviv.

At the same time, the Ukrainian side also hopes that Taiwan will first provide a large amount of financial assistance to Ukraine, similar to the Belarusian approach.