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Mainland China targets Taiwanese influencers for punishment over ‘fake and negative’ comments
- Beijing says five media and political figures from Taiwan will be subject to punitive measures, accusing them of provoking cross-strait hostility
- It does not reveal measures it plans to impose, but similar cases have included travel bans for mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau
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Vanessa Caiin Shanghai
Beijing has named a handful of Taiwanese influencers to a list of people it plans to target with punitive measures, accusing them of “fabricating fake and negative information” about mainland China’s development and provoking cross-strait tensions.
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On Wednesday, Chen Binhua, a spokesman for Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office, listed five people, saying that a small number of Taiwanese commentators had “disregarded the facts of the mainland’s development and progress, deliberately fabricating false and negative information about the mainland”, and disseminated these views widely through media platforms.
They include Taiwanese commentator Edward Huang, television host Liu Baojie, and three politicians: Lee Cheng-hao, who is also a host of several television programmes, Wang Yi-chuan, an official with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and former army general Yu Pei-chen.
“Their erroneous remarks have hoodwinked some people on the island, provoked cross-strait hostility and antagonism, and hurt the feelings of compatriots on both sides,” Chen said.
“Any acts of fabricating, spreading rumours, disrupting social order or damaging national honour and interests will face legal consequences.”
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