(17 Dec 2024)
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Taipei City, Taiwan – 17 December 2024
1. Various of Taipei and Shanghai city officials signing an memorandum of understanding
2. Taipei City Mayor Chiang Wan-an walking on stage
3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Chiang Wan-an, Taipei City Mayor:
"I am a Taipei mayor elected by the people. I have high expectations for whether there is peace, tension, or development across the strait. I think there should be more dialogue and less confrontations, more olive branches for peace and less sour grapes of conflicts. More lights on fishing boats at dawn and less noise of (war) ships and (war) planes.”
4. People taking photos
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Hua Yuan, Shanghai City Vice Mayor:
“The rules on protecting Taiwanese investments in Shanghai and the 55 articles in favor of Taiwanese investments are currently picking up pace for their implementation. We are very glad to see that large amount of Taiwanese investments in Shanghai are developing.”
6. Audience applauding
7. Close of logo of Taipei Shanghai City Forum
8. Various of protesters outside the venue, protesters shouting slogans, UPSOUND (Mandarin): “We refuse united front strategy. CCP go away! "The enemy comes with a hunting rifle. Taiwanese do not welcome that!”
9. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Wang Sing-huan, Taiwan Statebuilding Party Chairman:
“For China, anything that is related with Taiwan has to be dealt with the highest principles of the united front strategy. And there is no exception to that. We are also very aware that in the international geopolitics, Taiwan is the political entity that is the most militarily threatened by China in the rest of the whole world.”
10. Various of protesters outside the venue shouting slogans
UPSOUND (Mandarin) “We refuse the united front strategy! Traitors (referring to Taipei City mayor Chiang Wan-an) go away! Taiwan and China are two different countries! CCP go away! We refuse the united front strategy!”
STORYLINE:
The China-friendly mayor of Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, on Tuesday called for less confrontation between the sides, even as Beijing continues to send warships and fighter jets to intimidate the self-governing island democracy.
Chiang Wan-an was speaking Tuesday at the 15th Taipei-Shanghai Twin-City Forum, which is not sanctioned by Taiwan’s government, whose official position is that Taiwan is already an independent country with no reason to unify with China.
Chiang put a somewhat romantic twist on his remarks, saying “I am a Taipei mayor elected by the people. I have high expectations for whether there is peace, tension, or development across the strait. I think there should be more … lights on fishing boats at dawn and less noise of (war) ships and (war) planes.”
Between Monday and Tuesday, China sent 10 military aircraft and seven aircraft toward Taiwan, according to Taiwan’s Defense Ministry. Four of the aircraft crossed the middle line of the Taiwan Strait that forms an unofficial border between the sides.
China considers Taiwan part of its territory, to be brought under its control by force if necessary, although economic ties between the sides — especially with China’s financial hub of Shanghai — remain robust, with an emphasis on high-tech.
Shanghai’s representative, Vice Mayor Hua Yuan, told the 102 participants that, “the people of the two sides are all one family.”
Taiwan banned nine Chinese reporters from the gathering, saying they were superfluous, along with a Shanghai official for Taiwan affairs, in response to new, harsh new penalties targeting “diehard Taiwan independence separatists.”
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