The Chinese regime propaganda media They censored all mentions of the official name of Taiwan made by the former president of the island Ma Ying-jeou during his visit to Beijing that began this week.
Ma, the first former Taiwanese president to travel to the People’s Republic of China, mentioned the official name of Taiwan several times during his visit on Tuesday in nanjing (east) to the complex that houses the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleumone of the great protagonists of the Xinhai Revolutionwhich ended centuries of dynastic power in China and led to the creation of the Republic of China.
in the mausoleum, Ma Ying-jeou He also displayed a piece of calligraphy, signed by the former president with the date 2023 and “112,” the number of years since the founding of the ROC.
However, the television network controlled by Xi Jinping, CCTVcensored all allusions to Taiwan made by the former leader of the island, according to the Taiwanese news agency CNAs.
Given this, the island’s deputy prime minister, Cheng Wen-tsanof the Democratic Progressive Partycriticized that the way Ma mentioned the ROC sounded as if “only existed in history books”, and that he should have specified that “she is still alive in Taiwan today”.
Ma’s visit, historic as the first by a former Taiwanese president, comes at a time of tensions in relations between China and Taiwan due to the increasing pressure in the Strait.
China and Taiwan experienced a moment of rapprochement during the presidency of Ma Ying-jeou between 2008 and 2016 that had its peak in a historic meeting in Singapore between Ma and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, at the end of 2015, the first in more than 60 years of unilateral separation of the island.
He Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Taiwanese Kuomintang – to which Ma belongs and who is currently in opposition – defend a cooperation based on “opposition to Taiwanese independence” and the defense of the 1992 Consensus, points on which their postulates coincide.
The term “1992 Consensus” was coined by Taiwanese politician and academic Su Chi to reflect an assumption tacit agreement between Taipei and Beijing to recognize that “there is only one China in the world”, although each party has interpreted it in their own way.
After the electoral victory in Taiwan of the Democratic Progressive Party in 2016, tensions between Beijing and Taipei increased and intensified last summer due to the visit to the island of the then president of the US Congress, Nancy Pelosi, strongly protested by the Chinese authorities. .
Taiwan has been governed autonomously under the official name of the Republic of China since 1949 and China continues to consider it a rebel province for whose “reunification” it has not ruled out the use of force.
(With information from EFE)
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