Taiwan blasts China for airing spy 'confession', calls it violation of legal process

Taiwan blasted China for entrapment and alleged manipulation after Chinese state television aired supposed confession of a Taiwanese citizen arrested in Shenzhen. state television showed a documentary on October 11 in which Morrison Lee appeared to be confessing that he went to Hong Kong to support anti-government protesters.

“I’m very sorry. I did many bad, wrong things in past, perhaps harming morland and country,” Lee said.

Calling show “complete nsense”, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council accused Chinese authorities deliberately damaging relations. According to a report by South China Morning Post, council said that putting Lee on television was in violation of legal process and urged Chinese authorities to stop trying to frame Taiwanese citizens. showed was aired just a day after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen urged her Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to "deescalate tensions" and start "meaningful dialogue".

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During her address on Taiwan's national day, Tsai said that key issue is to discuss cross-strait relations and steps to ensure both countries can live in peace and co-exist based on mutual respect and understanding. Tsai highlighted Xi's speech at UN General Assembly, where he had said that mainland will never seek hegemony.

Beijing has become more assertive on reunification of Taiwan with China under “one country, two systems” which has threatened Taiwan’s claim of sovereignty. self-governing island republic considers itself as sovereign while China claims province as Beijing’s territory under its one-China policy and has been pushing to implement Hong Kong system in Taiwan. 

Taiwan's position on Hong Kong affairs

Before coronavirus outbreak, Taiwan was witnessing an influx from Hong Kong and permanent as well as short-term residency shot up to 30 per cent in a period of nine months. Taiwan has repeatedly clarified that it has intention to interfere in internal affairs of Hong Kong but simultaneously showed concerns about police using “disproportionate force” against anti-government protesters.

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