CHINESE COMPATRIOTS:Many Chinese living overseas yearn for democracy and learn that the China they know is different looking from the outside in, a minister said

Taipei Times
Date: Oct 06, 2017
By: Lu Yi-hsuan and Chen Wei-han  /  Staff reporters with CNA

Overseas Community Affairs Council head Wu Hsin-hsing speaks during a question-

and-answer session at a meeting of the legislature’s Foreign and National Defense Committee in Taipei yesterday.  Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times

Beijing has been mobilizing overseas political parties who advocate unification across the Taiwan Strait to visit Taiwanese political parties under the guise of economic exchanges, while “discouraging independence and promoting unification,” Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) Minister Wu Hsin-hsing (吳新興) said yesterday.

Wu made the statement during a question-and-answer session at a meeting of the legislature’s Foreign and National Defense Committee.

China has been very active in Asian overseas communities, working through multiple organizations, such as the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification, to quash suggestions of Taiwanese independence, Wu said.
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