China has issued this guideline related to Taiwan on Friday.
China on Friday threatened ‘death penalty’ to those demanding Taiwan’s independence. However, this threat of China is considered ineffective because the demand for Taiwan’s independence is not made in China. These demands are made in Taiwan where the rules of Chinese courts do not apply.
According to the report, China issued this new guideline on Friday. It states that if the actions of the leaders demanding independence of Taiwan cause any kind of harm to the country or the public, then death penalty can be given. Apart from this, there is also a provision of 10 years of imprisonment as punishment.
According to China’s official news agency Xinhua, the guidelines say that China’s courts, public prosecutors and security agencies should give severe punishment to those who want independence for Taiwan for dividing the country and inciting separatism. The sovereignty, unity and integrity of the country must be protected.
China considers Lai Ching-te a ‘dangerous separatist’
The dispute increased after the formation of the new government in Taiwan.
China considers Lai Ching-te, who was sworn in as President of Taiwan last month, a ‘dangerous separatist’. China has claimed that the President of Taiwan wants to wage war against China. At the same time, Taiwan’s President Ching Te has complained about the increasing pressure from China. He says that China is aggressively carrying out military action, coast guard patrolling and trade sanctions near the islands around Taiwan.
Taiwan considers itself an independent country
. China considers Taiwan to be its own part. Whereas Taiwan considers itself an independent country. This dispute between China and Taiwan has been going on for 73 years. Actually, the first connection between Taiwan and China happened in 1683. Then Taiwan was under the Qing Dynasty. Taiwan’s role in international politics came to the fore during the first Sino-Japanese War in 1894-95.
Japan defeated the Qing dynasty and made Taiwan its colony. After this defeat, China disintegrated into many parts. A few years later, China’s great leader Sun-Yat-Tsen formed the Kuo Mingtang Party in 1912 with the aim of unifying China. However, he died in 1925 before his campaign for the Republic of China could be fully successful.
After this, Kuo Mingtang Party split into two parts. Nationalist Party and Communist Party. Nationalist Party was in favour of giving maximum rights to the people, while Communist Party believed in dictatorship. Civil war started within China on this issue. In 1927, there was a situation of massacre between the two parties. Thousands of people were killed in Shanghai city. This civil war lasted from 1927 to 1950.
Japan took advantage of this and captured Manjuria, a big city of China. Then both the parties fought together against Japan and succeeded in liberating Manjuria from Japan in the Second World War (1945). After a few days, Japan also gave up its claim on Taiwan.
After this, fights between the two parties started again. People’s Republic of China and Republic of China, i.e. China and Taiwan. China was ruled by the Communist Party, i.e. Mao Tse Tung, while Taiwan was ruled by the Nationalist Kuomintang, i.e. Chiang Kai Shek. There was a war between the two for the occupation of the whole of China. With the help of Russia, the Communists won and confined Shek to Taiwan. i.e. he was confined to Taiwan.
Actually, the island of Taiwan is two thousand kilometers away from Beijing. Mao still kept his eyes on Taiwan and was adamant on merging it with China. There were fights from time to time, but China could not succeed because America stood behind Taiwan. During the Korean War, America declared Taiwan neutral.
When the Korean War ended in 1953, the US withdrew its naval fleet from Taiwan and soon after, China attacked Taiwan. China prevailed in this seven-month-long war and captured some disputed islands, but China still failed to conquer Taiwan completely. The US again entered the fray and the situation reached war.
The war finally ended on 6 October 1958. In 1945, when the United Nations replaced the old League of Nations, it recognised Kai-shek’s China, i.e. Taiwan. Not Communist China. Then on 25 October 1971, the UN recognised Communist China, excluding Taiwan. America too recognised Communist China in 1978, looking at its own benefits.
