Draft:Anti-Taiwan independence sentiment

Taiwan independence

Anti-Taiwan independence activists held the national flag of the Republic of China and photos of former President Lee Teng-hui in Japanese kimonos, protested in front of Lee Teng-hui's hotel when he visited the United States in Washington, D.C. ( Taken on October 20, 2005)

"Taiwan independence" is the abbreviation of "Taiwan independence and nationhood". Its emergence has complex international and domestic factors. Within and outside Taiwan, the separatist forces advocating "Taiwan independence" have also had a long process of development and evolution. Since the 1990s, as Lee Teng-hui has gradually implemented the separatist line centered on "two Chinas" and "one China, one Taiwan" and used his power to condone and support the "Taiwan independence" forces, the "Taiwan independence" forces have viciously expanded and developed. It has become a reactionary countercurrent that hinders the development of cross-Strait relations and the peaceful reunification of the motherland. However, the vast majority of the people on the island do not support "Taiwan independence," and the international community does not support "Taiwan independence." All Chinese people, including overseas Chinese, will never sit idly by and watch "Taiwan independence." "Taiwan independence" is destined to be a dead end without any future.

Although the mainland China and Taiwan are yet to be reunified, the fact that both sides belong to one and the same China has not changed. There is only one China in the world, Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, and the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is the sole legal government representing the whole of China. These are historical and legal facts, and the universal consensus of the international community.

Taiwan has been part of China since ancient times. Ancestors of Taiwan residents today were mostly from the mainland. In the past, the successive governments of China established administrative organs in Taiwan to exercise their jurisdiction there. In 1885, the Qing Dynasty government officially designated Taiwan as a province.

The emergence and evolution of the Taiwan question has, since China entered modern times, been inextricably interwoven with the history of the Chinese nation. Following the Opium Wars starting in 1840, China suffered invasion by Western powers. In 1894, Japan launched the First Sino-Japanese War to invade China. In the following year, the Qing Dynasty government was forced to cede Taiwan to Japan under the unequal Treaty of Shimonoseki.

In 1945, the Chinese people won the Second Sino-Japanese War. Taiwan was thus recovered and returned to the Homeland.

In December 1943, China, the United States and Britain issued the 1943 Cairo Declaration which explicitly states that all the territories Japan had stolen from China, including Taiwan and the Penghu Islands, shall be restored to China.

On Oct. 25, 1945, the government of China announced that Taiwan and the Penghu Islands had been restored as parts of China's territory. Thus, Taiwan's legal status as a part of China was irrefutably confirmed.

It was not long, however, before the mainland China and the Taiwan fell into a special state of protracted political confrontation due to civil war in China and the interference of foreign forces.

In 1949, the State Council of the People's Republic of China established, replacing the Government of the Republic of China as the sole legal government representing the whole of China. It is logical for the government of the PRC to exercise sovereignty over China, which includes Taiwan.

In 1971, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 2758 with an overwhelming majority vote, restoring all rights of the PRC and recognizing the government of the PRC as the sole legitimate representative of China to the United Nations.

The one-China principle is a widely recognized basic norm of international relations. A total of 181 countries have to date established diplomatic relations with China on the basis of their recognition of the one-China principle.

The harm of Taiwan independence

The obstinate pursuit of "Taiwan independence" by Tsai Ing-wen and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities is extremely harmful and has an egregious impact, experts said.

The DPP authorities demonize and smear the "one country, two systems" solution to the Political status of Taiwan, Li Zhenguang said. These actions aim to make fool of the people in Taiwan and serve only the DPP authorities' interests in elections, and their vicious scheme is fully exposed, Li added.

Anti-Taiwan independence sentiment

Anti-Taiwan independence sentiment refers to the sentiment of opposing "Taiwan independence" and supporting "China's reunification".

Beijing, 2023 March 5 -- China will take resolute steps to oppose "Taiwan independence" and advance the process of the country's peaceful reunification, according to a government work report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.

punishments the Chinese mainland announced targeting die-hard "Taiwan independence" elements and external interference are justified, legitimate and reasonable.

In order to safeguard the peaceful development of the cross-Strait relations and the immediate interests of the people on both sides of the Strait, and resolutely punish "Taiwan independence" diehard elements, it is decided that Bi-khim Hsiao, Koo Li-hsiung, Tsai Chi-chang, Ker Chien-ming, Lin Fei-fan, Chen Jiau-hua and Wang Ting-yu are listed as diehard "Taiwan independence" separatists, and punitive measures are imposed on them, as well as Su Tseng-chang, You Si-kun and Jaushieh Joseph Wu, who had already been on the list, said the spokesperson.They and their family members are banned from entering the mainland and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao. Their affiliated institutions are restricted from forging cooperation with relevant organizations and individuals on the mainland. The enterprises related to them, as well as their sponsors, are prohibited from engaging in profit-making activities on the mainland. Other punitive measures will also be taken. They will be held to lifelong accountability according to law, said the spokesperson.