Friday, November 5, 2021

Beijing Says It Will Hold Supporters Of Taiwan's Independence Criminally Responsible For Life

Honour guards wearing protective masks raise a Taiwanese flag at the National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei. Photo: Bloomberg  

Reuters: China says it will hold supporters of Taiwan's independence criminally responsible for life 

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will make people who support Taiwan independence criminally liable for life, a spokeswoman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office said on Friday. 

This is the first time that China has spelt out concretely punishment for people deemed to be pro-Taiwan independence, as tensions rise between the mainland and the self-ruled island China claims as its own. 

The office named Taiwan's Premier Su Tseng-chang, Parliament Speaker You Si-kun and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu as people who are "stubbornly pro-Taiwan independence", and made public for the first time it has drawn up a list of people who fall into this cateogry.  

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Beijing Says It Will Hold Supporters Of Taiwan's Independence Criminally Responsible For Life  

‘Diehard’ Taiwan ‘separatists’ face mainland China ban, criminal charges (SCMP)  

China lays out punishment for Taiwan independence supporters (Nikkei Asian)  

China says it will make supporters of Taiwan independence criminally liable for life (The Independent)  

China to hold Taiwan independence supporters criminally liable (Al Jazeera)  

China creates blacklist of 'stubborn Taiwan secessionists' banned from Hong Kong (Taiwan News)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most of these supporters will fled Taiwan with suit cases of US tax payers money.

Dave Goldstein said...

yeah yeah. China talks a lot but does nothing.