Milk Tea Alliance

WHY IN NEWS?

The ‘Milk Tea Alliance’ is an informal term coined by social media users in the South East Asia to denote the rejection of China’s influence in the region.

ABOUT MILK TEA ALLIANCE

• Thai social media users began calling for the sovereignty of Taiwan and Hong Kong, extending support to the two countries.
• This spurred social media users from other Southeast Asian countries to join the call, in a rejection of China’s influence in the region for its own diplomatic and economic gains.
• The ‘Milk Tea Alliance’ is an informal term coined by social media users in the South East Asian nations because in the region tea is consumed in many nations with milk, with the exception of China.
• China officially responded by tweeting that the One China Principle is irrefutable