China is stepping up efforts to be nice to Taiwan ahead of key elections on Jan....
TAIPEI - China is stepping up efforts to be nice to Taiwan ahead of key elections on Jan. 11, offering better treatment to Taiwanese in China and urging the democratic island to “come home”, but many there only see Beijing wielding a threatening stick.
These can range from military intimidation - China fired missiles into the Taiwan Strait before the 1996 election - to what Taiwan’s government calls Beijing’s manipulation of China-friendly Taiwanese media. Dovetailing with those steps has been an unusual Chinese effort at soft power to speak directly to people in Taiwan, a gentler approach after some hostile moves this year, such as a threat of force by President Xi Jinping in January.
China has not only been using Mandarin, the official tongue on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but has also deployed Hokkien and Hakka, two languages spoken on the island but whose formal use is not encouraged in China. China was the “enemy of democracy”, Cho Jung-tai, chairman of the ruling pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party , which has repeatedly warned of the threat China poses, said this week.
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