TAIPEI: A group of Chinese officials arrived in Taiwan on Saturday (Feb 18) on the first visit in three years, since the COVID-19 pandemic began, to attend a cultural event at a time of soaring military tensions acro
Taiwan's government this week allowed the trip of six officials, led by Liu Xiaodong, deputy head of the Shanghai office of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, to attend the Lantern Festival in Taipei, at the invitation of the city government.
A small group of about a dozen pro-Taiwan independence supporters protested his arrival outside the airport, shouting"Taiwan and China, separate countries" and"Chinese people, get out", while on the airport road, another small group of pro-China supporters shouted their welcome. "Everything China does is in the service of politics, and their aim is definitely a united front," Chen added, referring to the name of China's policy to co-opt non-Communists and Taiwan's people in particular.
While China has refused to speak to Taiwan's government since President Tsai Ing-wen took office in 2016, believing she is a separatist, city-to-city exchanges had continued until interrupted by the pandemic.
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