BEIJING, Nov 5 — China will make people who support Taiwan independence criminally liable for life, a spokeswoman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said today. This is the first time that China has spelt out concretely punishment for people deemed to be pro-Taiwan independence, as tensions rise...
BEIJING, Nov 5 — China will make people who support Taiwan independence criminally liable for life, a spokeswoman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said today.
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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