BULLYING: The CCP has been accusing Taiwan of trying to gain independence to divert attention from its incompetence in resolving its own affairs, the MAC said
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 12, 2019
By: Chung Li-hua / Staff reporter
As Taiwanese have unequivocally rejected the “one country, two systems” formula that China has
Photo: Chung Li-hua, Taipei Times
The council issued the statement in response to China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), which criticized President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) Double Ten National Day address as an attempt to “vilify the ‘one country, two systems’ policy, thereby stoking anti-China sentiment.”
Tsai’s address “exposed the Democratic Progressive Party administration’s pro-Taiwanese independence nature, which runs counter to the overall interests of the Zhonghua minzu [ethnic Chinese groups],” TAO spokesman Ma Xiaoguang (馬曉光) said earlier yesterday.
The speech “smacks of confrontational thinking and animosity” and was an attempt to belittle “one country, two systems” to stoke anti-China sentiment, he said. [FULL STORY]
