“The 23 million Taiwanese will... never surrender to Chinese bullying and threats,” said the island’s Mainland Affairs Council.
A mainland Chinese official’s claim that Taiwan was complicit in the protests that have gripped Hong Kong since June has prompted a sharp rebuke from the island’s political agency charged with managing relations with Beijing.
“The Chinese Communist Party should admit its mistakes and start political reforms, practise democracy and respect human rights. And only afterwards can Beijing solve its internal and external crisis,” it said. Anti-government protests have rocked the city for 13 straight weeks, sparked by a now-shelved extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial.
In his speech on Saturday, Sun also accused Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen of deliberately fanning Hong Kong’s anger against Beijing in an attempt to reduce the city’s support for the one country, two systems framework. Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Taiwan in January that unification must be the ultimate goal of any talks about the future and that efforts to assert full independence would be met by armed force.
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