BEIJING: The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council on Wednesday indirectly confirmed that the mainland is formulating a blacklist of “diehard Taiwan secessionists,” after Hong Kong media revealed the news recently. Su Tseng-chang, head of Taiwan’s executive body and an extreme secessionist with strong hostility against the Chinese mainland, is on the blacklist of diehard Taiwan secessionists, an authoritative source told the Global Times.
Mainland experts believe that although the content of the list remains unknown, the blacklist itself would be a huge deterrent against Taiwan secessionists, as it shows that the public opinion and legal basis for the mainland to crack down on Taiwan secessionists and their paymasters have been completed.
Taiwan secessionists and their separatist activities are the biggest threat to peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits and the biggest obstacle to the peaceful development of cross-Straits relations, said Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, in response to the mainland’s reported move to formulate a blacklist of “diehard Taiwan secessionists.” “Moves made by secessionists to provoke China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity can never be tolerated… The aim of cracking down on secessionists and their supporters and paymasters is to safeguard peace and stability and the interests of Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits,” said Zhu in response to questions on the blacklist.
According to Taiwan media, some Taiwan secessionist politicians questioned the validity of a “blacklist” to show they are not worried about being blacklisted. Tsai Ing-wen, the head of the separatist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and regional leader of the island, has remained silent on the matter.
“Taiwan independence” is a dead-end road that will only bring disaster to Taiwan people. Reunification is an irresistible trend, and secessionists will be condemned by the people and punished by history, said Zhu. A statement from the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council is actually a confirmation of such a blacklist against Taiwan secessionists, and mainland experts began forming such lists in 2019, Wang Jianmin, a Taiwan affairs expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Wednesday. – The Daily Mail-Global Times News exchange item
