Taipei is punishing Taiwanese individuals unlawfully acquiring Chinese identity cards, obviously in a quote to consist of Beijing’s broadening impact.
The Mainland Affairs Council stated it is doing something about it versus citizens who hold legitimate identity files for both the self-governed island and the mainland.
Interior minister Liu Shyh Fang stated private investigators have actually recognized a number of business that presumably assist individuals look for Chinese ID cards.
This comes soon after 2 Taiwanese influencers shared a video demonstrating how Beijing is drawing the island’s citizens to look for Chinese identity cards in a technique relocate to swing popular opinion in its favour.
China thinks about Taiwan a part of its area and does not eliminate using force to bring the island under its control. Taiwanese leaders, nevertheless, decline Chinese sovereignty.
A minimum of 4,000 Taiwanese citizens are reported to have actually requested Chinese identity cards in the seaside city of Xiamen in Fujian province. About half of them did so without quiting their Taiwanese recognition files or passport needed to check out the mainland.
Among the influencers behind the YouTube video, Pa Chiung, has actually declared that 3 to 5 travel and public relations business in Taiwan and 2 companies in China are helping Taiwanese citizens in protecting Individuals’s Republic of China identity cards throughout journeys to the mainland.
Ms Fang verified this. “3 to 5 public relations companies in southern and northern Taiwan have actually presumably assisted Taiwanese look for Chinese ID cards and are under examination for prospective legal infractions,” the minister stated previously this month.
Ms Fang, whose ministry manages Taiwan’s migration and examination companies, stated a minimum of 30 people are being questioned in connection with the procurement of Chinese identity documents.
The interior ministry is likewise examining whether the Taiwanese business under examination were driven by “simply industrial” intentions or belonged to a bigger operation to promote China’s addition of Taiwan.