China earlier issued legal guidelines threatening punishments up to the death penalty for "diehard" Taiwan separatists.
TAIPEI – It is unmissable. Floating all over the homepage of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office website is a box with the words “punish Taiwan independence diehards in accordance with the law”.A click on the roving box takes viewers to a new web page, where 10 people deemed to be such “diehards” are listed.
“The Chinese authorities are following up on their previous announcement, and they want to make an example out of these 10 people,” he said, adding that more names would likely be added to the list in the future. Nine out of the 10 names on the list are politicians hailing from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party , which champions Taiwan’s separate identity from China. The last person on the list, Ms Chen Jiau-hua, is former chair of the smaller New Power Party, whose policies align closely with the ruling party.
But while experts say that the deliberate exclusion is by no means a conciliatory gesture, it does leave Beijing with some room to manoeuvre. When asked about the list at a regular briefing on Aug 8, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said that it hinders exchange and communication between people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
For its part, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office has reiterated that its punitive measures are directed only at “a small number of stubborn individuals” and do not apply to most of the Taiwanese public.
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