China’s state-backed propaganda mouthpiece Global Times calls the anticipated 2019 referendum an ‘unrealistic dream,’ fears it would be a ‘disaster’
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/08
By: Duncan DeAeth, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – In an editorial published the same day as the formal
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establishment of the Formosa Alliance on April 7, the Chinese state-backed Global Times publication expressed its worry towards the idea of a public referendum that might amend Taiwan’s constitution.
The article entitled “Taiwan vote unrealistic dream” claims that the only people in support of the referendum are an older and marginalized generation that is “out of main stream.”
The piece references a pro-Beijing website in Taiwan, which says that the referendum aiming to formally declare the nation of Taiwan, is not only “an unrealistic dream,” but that that such an“unrealistic” referendum would also be a “disaster,” which betrays their true worries towards the referendum and the Formosa Alliance. [FULL STORY]
