Taiwan Affairs Office condemns DPP actions
China DailyChen Binhua, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council. A Chinese mainland spokesman on Friday condemned the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party for exploiting the case of "Taiwan independence" separatist Yang Chih-yuan, who was sentenced to nine years in prison for the crime of splitting the country, in an attempt to smear the mainland. Taiwan's mainland affairs authorities said that Yang's case demonstrated that mainland's measures against "Taiwan independence" target all Taiwan people, suggesting that any Taiwan individual could be convicted as a separatist. Chen Binhua, the spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said that the Intermediate People's Court of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province sentenced Yang to nine years in prison for the crime of splitting the country on Aug 26, depriving him of political rights for three years. The court found that from 2008 to 2020, Yang actively engaged in activities aimed at splitting the country and seeking "Taiwan independence" in Taiwan, including formulating plans for "Taiwan independence" actions, plotting to promote building the island into "a country", and attempting to promote Taiwan to join the United Nations and other separatist activities that undermine national unity, according to Chen.