TAIPEI: Taiwanese employees working in the island’s representative office in Hong Kong will start departing the Chinese-run town from Sunday, ” a senior officer said, following the authorities there required its own officials sign a record encouraging Beijing’s promise to Taiwan.
Chinese-ruled Hong Kong has come to be a second bone of contention between Taipei and Beijing, particularly after Taiwan lambasted an safety law imposed by Hong Kong from Beijing and started inviting Hong Kongers to repay to the island.
Lin Fei-fan, deputy secretary general of Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party, stated just local employees would stay at the workplace.
“That is the reason the Chinese Communist Party and also the Hong Kong authorities continue to drive our employees engaged in Hong Kong to signal up a’one China devotion letter’ to recognise’one China’,” he stated on his FB page.
“As a political requirement for your visa renewal, so we shall obviously not take it” China sees democratically-ruled Taiwan within”one China” and hasn’t renounced the use of power to bring the island under its own control.
Lin said Taiwan wouldn’t take”one China” or”one nation, two systems”, Beijing’s method of conducting Hong Kong under Chinese sovereignty it expects to one day use to the staircase.
A senior Taiwan official familiar with the issue told Reuters seven Taiwan officials may return on Sunday afternoon, using the final remaining official to return following visa expiry following month.
“It isn’t suitable for all of us to be diminished,” the officer said, pointing towards the petition to sign the file.
In a statement before on Sunday,” Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council stated that because July 2018 that the Hong Kong administration has”repeatedly establish ridiculous political requirements for personnel visas because of his Hong Kong office, requiring that the signing of a’One China Commitment Letter'”.
Starting from Monday, the Hong Kong office will”correct its company managing procedure,” it added, stating the workplace will keep”necessary surgeries”.
Taiwanese staff won’t sign any “one China” letter,” it included.
Last month, Hong Kong suspended operations in its Taiwan representative office, attributing Taipei’s”gross” interference in internal affairs, such as with its deal to help”violent” protesters, accusations Taiwan refused.
Macau’s authorities followed suit Wednesday.