I don't think you should promote disinformation like this. Visiting the Mainland is not illegal for Cheng. Negotiating political agreements on the other hand is prohibited. But she could absolutely be negotiate business deals.
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I don't think you should promote disinformation like this. Visiting the Mainland is not illegal for Cheng. Negotiating political agreements on the other hand is prohibited. But she could absolutely be negotiate business deals.
the video link allegedly shows the official guy talking about possible consequences of the alleged visit. the report is about the statement of the guy. the quoted line is google translated of the report caption.
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Imprisonment is only a possible consequence for Cheng if she's stupid and breaks Taiwanese law on this OR the DPP is stupid and ignores Taiwanese law and imprisons her anyways.
It’s unlikely she would be imprisoned, if the DPP did that they would lose more support and they are currently struggling with support
They won't actually imprison her, but it is very typical for DPP to threaten high profile support of so-called "United Front" work
Ouyang Nana and Angela Chang from Taiwan were threatened with fines after performing at a National Day Gala on the mainland
Threatening to take away pensions from Veterans who support China
China Times TV Channel CTi not allowed to broadcast traditionally in Taiwan
Threatening businesspeople
Granted that some of these elements are pretty inflammatory, for example Ouyang tweeted images of Joint-Sword exercises and said something like "THERE IS ONLY ONE CHINA". CTi is like Fox News-like on how great (mainland) China is, routinely praising the power of the PLA and how Taiwan cannot resist. I can get where they are coming from, but in general just pointing out this is what DPP does.
They have in fact deported some mainland-origin spouses of Taiwanese in a fairly recent case for making pro unification statements
Won’t stop things like this from happening. Any HK/WW pop star worth their salt knows which side their bread is buttered.
Censorship, taking away money or levying fines or even deportation are one thing. Imprisonment is quite a different matter. Not that I approve of what the DPP is doing; it's putting lie to the idea of Taiwan being a "liberal democracy", but at this point, I think it's pretty clear that geopolitical lines are being drawn and all nations, regardless of their political system, are going to enact the same sort of policies to ensure their citizens toe the line as much as feasible.
All this to say, these actions by the DPP are unsurprising. The only way this will change is if the the KMT suddenly manage to not be clown-shoes incompetent in elections, the DPP do something outrageously stupid, or Wanwanese in key Green areas of Taiwan suddenly come to their senses and decide to choose economic growth rather than "sovereignty". Less likely is a PHL-116 barrage landing on their heads, and while this may be particularly cathartic to me, it's probably not wise of Zhongnanhai to attempt to change facts on the ground in such a way until all other avenues are exhausted.
USA is not a threat and never has been
China can take the first, second island chain and even australia and there is nothing the US can do about it
China can take the first, second island chain and even australia and there is nothing the US can do about it