China says it will punish and veto “staunch Taiwanese secessionists”

China stated that “will punish” a “staunch Taiwanese secessionists“, Who will also be vetoed from entering mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao.

“We will punish them in accordance with the law and prohibit them from entering or doing business here“Said in a statement the spokeswoman Zhu Fenglian of the Chinese Office for Taiwan Affairs, reported the state agency Xinhua.

Zhu cited among whom Beijing sees as “staunch independentists”To the Taiwanese Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang, the President of the Legislature, You Si-kun and the Foreign Ministry, Joseph Wu.

According to Zhu, these people “they have vigorously incited the confrontation across the Straits and maliciously attacked the Chinese mainland. “

“Those who betray the motherland are destined for a bad end“Said Zhu, who also accused the”secessionists” from “conspire with foreign forces to divide the country ”.

The statements come after a visit to Taiwan by a group of MEPs, who said today that the European Parliament must “increase exchangesWith the island.

This trip has not sat well in China, which has warned that it could “damage relationships”Between Brussels and Beijing.

In addition, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen recently confirmed that the United States has a military presence on the island “to train Taiwanese troops“, Something that China described as a”provocation”.

China claims sovereignty over the island, which has been governed autonomously since the Kuomintang nationalists (KMT) retreated there in 1949 after losing the civil war against the communists and continued with the regime of the ROC, which culminated in the transition to democracy in the 1990s.

Since then, the voices that demand to declare the independence of Taiwan as a sovereign state have gained strength.

As recently stated by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the islanders who defend these ideas “they are a grave danger ” and “The biggest obstacle to reunification.”

For her part, Tsai has stated that “no one can force Taiwan to take the path that China chooses“For the island, and that”Beijing offers neither a free and democratic lifestyle for Taiwan nor sovereignty for its 23 million people.