A fan wave a Taiwanese flag throughout a project rally for Han Kuo- yu, the governmental prospect for the Kuomintang celebration, ahead of the governmental election on January 09, 2020 in Taipei, Taiwan.
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China will hold those who support “Taiwan independence” criminally accountable for life, it stated on Friday, provoking anger and ridicule from the democratic island at a time of increased stress throughout the delicate Taiwan Strait.
For the very first time China was defining the penalty that waits for individuals considered to back self-reliance for Taiwan, leading authorities of the self-ruled island amongst them, as stress increases over what China considers a province of its own.
China has actually not dismissed utilizing force to bring Taiwan under its control, in spite of the island’s claim that it is an independent nation that will safeguard its liberty and democracy.
The Taiwan Affairs Office called Taiwan Premier Su Tseng- chang, Parliament Speaker You Si- kun and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu as being “stubbornly pro-Taiwan independence,” as it revealed for the very first time that it had actually prepared a list of those falling under the classification.
China will implement penalty for those on the list by not letting them go into the mainland and its Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, spokesperson Zhu Fenglian stated in a declaration on Friday.
Such blacklisted people will not be enabled to work together with entities or individuals from the mainland, nor will their business, or entities which money them, be enabled to make money from the mainland, she included.
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council advised China, stating Taiwan was a democratic society with guideline of law and not ruled by Beijing.
“We do not accept intimidation and threats from an autocratic and authoritarian region,” the council stated, including that it would take the “necessary countermeasures to safeguard the safety and well-being of the people”.
Zhu stated the message China wished to send out to fans of Taiwan self-reliance was: “Those who forget their ancestors, betray the motherland and split the country, will never end up well, and will be spurned by the people and judged by history.”
In a Twitter post on Saturday, Taiwan’s foreign minister, Joseph Wu, composed, “I’ve received countless notes of congratulations after being blacklisted and sanctioned, for life, by the #CCP,” describing the Chinese Communist Party.
“Many are jealous for not being recognized; some ask where they can apply for it. To deserve the rare honor, I’ll keep fighting for #Taiwan’s freedom and democracy.”
China thinks Taiwan President Tsai Ing- wen is a separatist set on stating official self-reliance. She states Taiwan is currently an independent nation called the Republic of China, its official name.
