Beijing still regards Taiwan as a rebel province called back in her lap. The island fears a recovery in the hand muscled by the chinese authorities.
China is seeking to make the territory’s democratic Taiwan, “the next hong Kong”, has accused Tuesday the minister to the taiwanese foreign Affairs, Joseph Wu, after his conversation with a senior u.s. official on a visit.
in hong Kong, the suppression of dissent has intensified since the entry into force at the end of June of the draconian law on the national security imposed by Beijing. Many activists pro-democracy were arrested while legislative candidates belonging to the opposition were disqualified.
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This recovery in the hand aggressive China on the territory semi-autonomous aroused the concern of Taiwan, an island of 23 million people. On Tuesday, during an exceptional meeting on Tuesday in Taipei with Alex Azar, a senior official of the u.s. government, the minister of foreign Affairs said that Taiwan has lived under the constant threat of seeing their freedoms threatened by Beijing.
“Our daily life is increasingly difficult,”
“Our daily life is increasingly difficult as China continues to pressure Taiwan to accept its terms and conditions policies, terms and conditions that will make Taiwan the next Hong Kong,” said Joseph Wu. “The people of Taiwan are only too well accustomed to the threats, be they military, diplomatic or epidemic”, he added.
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The u.s. secretary of Health Alex Azar, who conducts a three-day visit, is the head of the us highest-ranking to go to Taiwan since 1979, the year when the United States had broken their diplomatic relations with Taipei to recognize the communist government based in Beijing as the sole representative of China.
Beijing, which still regards Taiwan as a rebel province called back into the fold, by force if necessary, has condemned this historic visit to Taipei. Since the election in 2016 of the chairperson Tsai Ing-wen, was re-elected for a second term in January, China has increased diplomatic pressure, economic and military on Taiwan.
Taiwan is “already an independent country”
Tsai Ing-wen Tsai rejects the principle of the unity of the island and of the continent within China and championed by Beijing and considers that Taiwan is “already an independent country”. China has proposed to apply to the island the principle of “one country, two systems” came into force in hong Kong after the return of 1997 and expected him to maintain for 50 years a degree of autonomy.
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If all the major parties in taiwan have rejected this proposal, control growing of Beijing on hong Kong seems to have definitively put an end to the little enthusiasm that it led to. This journey occurs within a context of us-china tensions rising on a whole bunch of topics, folder, hong kong to the business issues, passing by the coronavirus.
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on Monday, the ministry to the taiwanese Defence has stated that hunters chinese had made a brief foray beyond the median line of the Strait of Taiwan that Taipei and Beijing consider a long date as their “border”.
