China announces sanctions for “Taiwanese separatist fanatics”

The Taiwan Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party announced on Tuesday sanctions against those it described as “Taiwanese separatist fanatics”, reports the official Xinhua news agency. Among the sanctioned people are the vice president of the Legislative Assembly of Taiwan, Tsai Chi-chang, activists such as Lin Fei-fan and other members of the Democratic Progressive Party (ruling on the island) such as Bi-khim Hsiao, Wang Ting-yu or Koo Li-hsiung. These people thus join a list in which The island’s current Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joseph Wu, was already included, among others. Those sanctioned and their close relatives will be prohibited from entering mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao, and their companies and organizations will not be able to carry out activities in mainland China with the intention of profit.”Some fanatic Taiwanese separatists have gone to great lengths to collude with foreign forces to advocate for Taiwan’s independence”According to a spokesman for The Office quoted by Xinhua, the figures on the list will be “accountable before the law for life.” The Office said that “some Taiwanese separatist fanatics have gone to great lengths to collude with foreign forces to advocate for Taiwan independence “, behavior that became “more egregious” during the trip of the president of the House of Representatives of the USA, Nancy Pelosi, to the island at the beginning of the month. China responded to the trip with military maneuvers around the island and with commercial sanctions. to some Taiwanese products, as well as to Pelosi herself and her close relatives. Shortly after the US policy visit, Chinese authorities arrested a Taiwanese citizen living in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou for his alleged involvement in “separatist activities.” China insists on “reunifying” the People’s Republic with the island, which It has been governed autonomously since the nationalists of the Kuomintang (KMT) withdrew there in 1949 after losing the civil war against the communists and continued with the regime of the Republic of China, which culminated in the transition to democracy in the 1990s.