Chen's remarks came following a Kaohsiung City Council meeting Thursday, the day after China's Taiwan Affairs Office admitted for the first time the existence of a proposed blacklist of"diehard Taiwan secessionists."
In an attempt to reassure the wider Taiwanese public, Zhu said the list would only affect a"very small number" of independence advocates, who she described as"brazen plotters."Mayor Chen, who is a member of President Tsai Ing-wen's ruling Democratic Progressive Party, said China needed to grasp democratic Taiwan's thirst for"national identity" and"peace," state-funded CNA reported.
"China's malign behavior not only fails to strike the slightest bit of fear in Taiwan's citizens, it adds to the hatred of the authoritarian Communist Party's ignorant bullying," the council was quoted as saying in a CNA report Wednesday.
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