Taipei [Taiwan], July 9 (ANI): Taiwan has strongly criticised China for ‘glorifying’ the assault on Taipei-based Japanese political commentator Akio Yaita as an act motivated by ‘righteous indignation’, based on the Taipei Times.
Yaita, the chief government officer of the Taiwan-based Indo-Pacific Strategy Think Tank, was punched within the face by a Chinese man surnamed Liao in Taichung on Monday. Taiwanese authorities have speculated that the incident may contain ‘transnational repression’ and could also be linked to China’s lately carried out Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, the Taipei Times reported.
Police arrested Liao later that afternoon at Taichung International Airport whereas he was allegedly making ready to board a flight to Busan, South Korea.
In an announcement issued on Wednesday, the Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) condemned Beijing for failing to denounce the assault and as a substitute portraying it as an act pushed by ‘righteous indignation’.
The MAC stated the remarks by Chinese authorities both amounted to ‘a blatant lie’ or an try and mislead the Taiwanese public.
The criticism got here after China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) spokesman Chen Binhua described the assault as an ‘bizarre’ public safety case that occurred by probability and accused Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party authorities of exploiting the incident for ‘political manipulation’. Chen additionally claimed Taiwan was distorting China’s Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law to impress cross-strait tensions, based on the Taipei Times.
The MAC stated the China’s TAO has repeatedly defended suspects concerned in high-profile incidents in Taiwan whereas accusing Taipei of ‘political persecution’ or ‘political suppression’.
Separately, Taiwan Premier Cho Jung-tai advised visiting US Senator Tammy Duckworth that China has tried to hold out transnational repression focusing on Taiwanese civil servants, judicial personnel, harmless relations and overseas nationals in Taiwan, with authorities recording 134 folks threatened in 120 instances thus far.
Cho stated the Taiwanese authorities would do every little thing potential to guard each residents and overseas nationals, no matter whether or not the assault on Yaita was an remoted act or a part of an organised effort.
He additionally stated the Executive Yuan has established an interagency coordination platform in response to China’s new ethnic unity legislation and hopes to proceed working with the United States to counter Beijing’s cross-border strain and ‘gray zone’ actions. Authorities stated it stays unclear whether or not the assault was immediately linked to China’s ethnic unity legislation. (ANI)