Visiting Taiwan to advocate forceful unification in the guise of sightseeing is a terrorist act: Su
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/04/13
By: Huang Tzu-ti, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Su attends an event promoting Pingtung-grown onions (By Central News Agency)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The government of Taiwan will deport anyone who intends to push for military unification during his or her sojourn on the island, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said Saturday, a day following the deportation of Chinese academic Li Yi (李毅) who had attempted to deliver a speech while only having applied for a tourist visa.
Su reiterated the government’s stern stance over the issue in an event marketing Pingtung-grown onions on April 13, wrote Liberty Times, as a group of five pro-unification individuals was reportedly planning to visit the island to conduct public speeches at the end of the month.
Taiwan, despite being a free, democratic, and hospitable country, will never countenance conducts by individuals who seek to impose the ideology of China’s unification with Taiwan through military force, asserted Su, adding “visiting Taiwan to advocate forceful unification under the guise of sightseeing amounts to a terrorist act.”
Stressing that it was justifiable for the National Immigration Agency to expel Li Yi, Su said Taiwan has been “nice” in dealing with the matter, “unlike Beijing, which has moved to jail Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-che (李明哲) for five years simply because he had made a few remarks online,” the report quoted him. [FULL STORY]
