INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Beijing has pledged to punish those who enforce Taiwan’s residency restrictions for mainland Chinese spouses, with Communist Party
mouthpiece People’s Daily slamming Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te’s recent remarks about “removing impurities” on the
island.
On Wednesday, Chen Binhua, a spokesman for Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office, described the island’s tightened residency rules as
“a typical case of illegal abuse of power” and accused Taiwanese authorities of “discriminatory treatment...
