China has increasingly employed legal means to isolate Taiwan diplomatically and legitimise its territorial claims over the island. In the last year, China’s efforts to distort the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 and conflate the one-China policy and one-China principle have attracted much attention. However, an examination of legal initiatives being implemented within China reveals that a significant number of CCP actors are engaged in less-discussed initiatives that attempt to further cross-Strait integration and could provide legal justification for future actions against Taiwan. Xi Jinping’s attempt to create a ‘common market’ across the Taiwan Strait has empowered local party committees working within the constraints of top-down directives to both devise and implement specific policies. Their implementation is often coordinated by local Taiwan Affairs Offices in conjunction with several national and local state administrative bodies. ➡ Download the latest Charting China infographic: https://lnkd.in/eF-7t6eq ➡ Learn more with in-depth analysis: https://lnkd.in/eFGu3kza ➡ Explore more Charting China infographics on China’s lawfare against Taiwan: https://lnkd.in/ejRJVCcD
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6hMore than 98 million members of the CPP, more than 2.5 million members of the PLA, and the other 1.4 billion Chinese will celebrate Kung Hei Fat Choi with more than 23 million Taiwanese, and millions more of Chinese Singaporeans, Chinese Malaysians, Chinese Indonesians, Chinese Filipinos, Chinese Vietnamese, and other Chinese Southeast Asians. Universally accepted, and academically and scientifically proven, science of 23andMe DNA kits combined with ancestry.com genealogies or family trees will show the China-Taiwan issues are inter and multi generation family squabbles. We get it, the original founders and followers of the CCP, PLA, and Kuomintang, and now their descendants who are similarly members of the CCP, PLA, and Kuomintang are still fighting each other for control of a Strait and an island. So, why are the US and Southeast Asian militaries -- grandfathers, grandmothers, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters, uncles, aunts, friends, loved ones, classmates, neighbors, et al., -- be expected to sacrifice life and limb for the emotional satisfaction of the Taiwanese and all anti-China people?