Last week, one observed the Chinese government parading Taiwanese currently imprisoned in China on television, with the claim that they are Taiwanese spies. Televised confessions of guilt were broadcast in order to reinforce this claim...
The revelation that Taiwanese academic Tsai Chin-shu has been detained by China for over 420 days should be highly worrying. That Tsai was detained for over 400 days with no information coming to light about his imprisonment suggests a higher number of Taiwanese currently detained by the Chinese government than was previously known. Likewise, Tsai was a known advocate of unification with China, suggesting that China will not only target pro-independence activists for arbitrary detention...
