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China tells Taiwanese to visit 'in high spirits', despite execution threat
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-tells-taiwanese-visit-in-high-spirits-despite-execution-threat-2024-06-29/China tells Taiwanese to visit 'in high spirits', despite execution threat
By Reuters
June 28, 2024 9:19 PM EDT Updated 8 hours ago
BEIJING, June 29 (Reuters) - Most Taiwanese can visit China with no need to worry and can come "in high spirits", the Chinese government said, condemning Taiwan for warning its citizens not to go following a threat from Beijing to execute "diehard" separatists.
Taiwan's government raised its travel warning for China this week, telling people not to go unless absolutely necessary after China announced legal guidelines threatening prosecution and in extreme cases the death penalty for Taiwan independence separatists.
In a statement late on Friday, China's Taiwan Affairs Office said the guidelines were only aimed a tiny number of separatists and their "evil words and actions". China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory.
Taiwan has ignored the facts and is trying to intimidate its own people for political means, which China is strongly opposed to, the office said in a statement.
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By Reuters
June 28, 2024 9:19 PM EDT Updated 8 hours ago
BEIJING, June 29 (Reuters) - Most Taiwanese can visit China with no need to worry and can come "in high spirits", the Chinese government said, condemning Taiwan for warning its citizens not to go following a threat from Beijing to execute "diehard" separatists.
Taiwan's government raised its travel warning for China this week, telling people not to go unless absolutely necessary after China announced legal guidelines threatening prosecution and in extreme cases the death penalty for Taiwan independence separatists.
In a statement late on Friday, China's Taiwan Affairs Office said the guidelines were only aimed a tiny number of separatists and their "evil words and actions". China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory.
Taiwan has ignored the facts and is trying to intimidate its own people for political means, which China is strongly opposed to, the office said in a statement.
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