At the December 24 press conference of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, a reporter asked: Recently, Taiwan’s executive authorities passed draft amendments to the so-called “National Security Law” and other legislation, stating that anyone who advocates that foreign countries or mainland China wage war on Taiwan, or who expresses support for non-peaceful means to eliminate the so-called “sovereignty of the Republic of China,” will face heavy penalties, with even harsher punishment for active-duty military personnel and civil servants. What is your comment?
Spokesperson Peng Qing’en replied that the Lai Ching-te administration stubbornly adheres to a separatist “Taiwan independence” stance and ignores the mainstream public desire in Taiwan for peace, development, exchange, and cooperation. It deliberately stirs up “anti-China” sentiment in an attempt to “seek independence by relying on external forces” and “seek independence by force,” continuously escalating tensions in the Taiwan Strait. This move is a concrete action under its so-called “17-point strategy,” aimed at heightening cross-Strait confrontation, undermining cross-Strait exchanges and cooperation, and intensifying the creation of a “green terror” and a “chilling effect,” all in service of its “Taiwan independence autocracy” and “green authoritarianism.”
He expressed the hope that the broad masses of Taiwan compatriots will clearly recognize the extreme danger and harmfulness of the Lai administration’s “Taiwan independence” line, and stand with the mainland in firmly opposing separatism and external interference and in firmly opposing efforts to drag the Taiwan Strait toward war.