The announcement is a major diplomatic coup for Beijing just days after the Democratic Progressive Party was elected to lead Taiwan for a third term.
“If they get crazy,then we have to be prepared,” Taiwanese chip magnate Robert Tsao said after Taiwan’s pro-sovereignty party won a third straight election.
The election of Lai Ching-te’s Democratic Progressive Party is likely to cement tensions with Beijing for the next four years.
Liang,a 21st-generation descendant of the Hakka people of southern China,yearns for Taiwan and the motherland to be united. He is among those voting on Saturday.
Four people were arrested last week for donating thousands of dollars to activists including Australia-based lawyer Ted Hui.
Australia’s first trial to test foreign interference laws has resulted in a guilty verdict for Victorian businessman Di Sanh Duong over a $37,000 hospital donation.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton also raised the incident,telling a top Chinese Communist Party official that it was lucky no one died from the sonar pulses
Chinese state-backed social media influencing operations manage teams of foreign nations to do its bidding online.
In a jarring few weeks,Australia has gone from the release of Cheng Lei,to seeing Anthony Albanese feted on the red carpet in Beijing.
The prime minister arrived in China on Saturday evening for the first official visit by an Australian leader in six years.
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