China to continue mix of propaganda and military threats

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/01/17
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer\

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Four years of “cold confrontation” are ahead for Taiwan and China following President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) re-election victory, but no showdown yet, according to retired Chinese official Wang Zaixi (王在希).

President Tsai won the Jan. 11 vote by a landslide amid voters’ concern about Chinese aggression toward both Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Beijing needed to continue its mix of media propaganda and military “deterrence” during Tsai’s second term in order to counter Taiwan Independence, Wang, a former deputy chairman of the Taiwan Affairs Office, told China’s communist newspaper the Global Times.

The retired Chinese government official said it would be impossible for cross-strait relations to improve during the next four years as they would be caught in a complete stalemate, CNA reported.
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