The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said it would work with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and international allies to discuss measures to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) transnational repression.
The council made the statement in a report to the legislature’s Transportation Committee regarding a news broadcast by the Beijing government-owned China Central Television (CCTV) targeting Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Puma Shen (沈伯洋).
In the video that aired on Sunday, it threatened Shen with “cross-border repression,” saying: “Stop now, or you will be next.”
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Taipei officials said it was an attempt to intimidate not only Shen, but also the Taiwanese public in general.
The video follows a report by China’s state-run Xinhua news agency late last month that said Shen is under investigation by the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau on allegations of “secession-related” criminal activities, including launching the civil defense organization Kuma Academy.
In June last year, China issued “22 guidelines” to penalize “die-hard” Taiwanese independence separatists, including with the death penalty.
In the face of CCP’s “transnational repression,” the council emphasized in the report that China has no judicial jurisdiction over Taiwan, and its so-called laws and regulations have no binding force on Taiwanese citizens.
The CCP is trampling on the rules-based international order, and Taiwan is not the only victim of transnational repression, it added.
Saying it would cooperate with MOFA and international allies to discuss countermeasures against China’s transnational repression, the council urged the global community to refuse to recognize Beijing’s arrest warrants or bounties, and to refuse to cooperate with the CCP’s abuse of the “global law enforcement” system.
President William Lai (賴清德) recently reiterated his firm stance against the CCP’s threats of annexation, aggression and push for “unification,” while expressing the hope that Beijing authorities would demonstrate greater power responsibility by abandoning the use of force to change the “status quo” in the Taiwan Strait, and uphold the spirit that “both sides of the Taiwan Strait should seek peace,” the council’s report said.
The council called on China to recognize the objective fact that the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China are not subordinate to each other, as well as the current situation in the Taiwan Strait.
It also urged Beijing to adopt a pragmatic and rational approach to dialogue with the Taiwanese government, and to jointly assume responsibility for maintaining peace in the Taiwan Strait and the region, the report said.
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