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The Chinese Ambassador to Australia has explained that Taiwanese who seek independence would be punished if China took control of the area.
Ambassador Xiao Qian said that the secessionists who sought to move Taiwan toward independence would be punished by the Chinese regime when the country was “reunified” with the mainland.
“They are going to be punished according to the law,” he said. “They’re involved in splitting Taiwan from China. So it’s not a question of education or re-education. They will be punished according to law.”
The comments follow remarks made by the ambassador during an address to the Australian National Press Club on Aug. 10, when Australian journalists pressed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) representative about the current tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
The CCP ambassador said it was his personal understanding that if an invasion was successful, its citizens would undergo “re-education.”
He said that Taiwan had been run by “a regional regime for many decades” and that “their perspective” about Mainland China might have different views, requiring “a process for the people in Taiwan to have a correct understanding of China.
