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A Chinese influencer who lives in Taiwan must leave the island in a matter of days or be deported, Taiwanese authorities said, after publishing videos that support the idea that China takes the island by force.
The movement occurs at a time of greater tensions through the narrow and growing suspicion of Chinese influence operations on the Democratic Island.
The National Immigration Agency of Taiwan (NIA), which revoked the influencer visa, said its “behavior advocates the elimination of Taiwan’s sovereignty and is not tolerated in Taiwanese society.”
The influencer, identified by the authorities with his surname Liu, had moved from Continental China to Taiwan with a dependent visa after marrying a Taiwanese man.
Liu has until March 24 to leave Taiwan before being deported by force, local media reported.
She could not request another dependent visa for five years, according to an NIA statement on Saturday.
Liu, better known on social networks as Yaya in Taiwan, regularly publishes Videos of Pro-Beijing comments with her little daughter.
In the videos, Liu refers to the island as a “province of Taiwan” and echoes the narrative of the state of China that Taiwan is “an inseparable part of China.”
China claims Taiwan self -governor as part of its territory, and has not ruled out the use of force over it. Taiwan, however, see himself as different from China.
“The complete unification of the homeland is a necessity, regardless of what the Taiwanese people want,” Liu said in a video about Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of Tiktok, where he has 480,000 followers.
“Pacific unification is much more difficult than force unification,” he added. “It depends on which elections the Taiwanese people take.”
As criticism set up against his videos, Liu published in Douyin in February that “he would never go back.”
He later said he was “trying to promote good on both sides” through his videos and “eliminate the abyss among people.”
“I’m just analyzing objectively and sharing my own opinions,” he said. “Those who press for the independence of Taiwan … are those that cause real damage to Taiwanese society.”
His comments have caused the condemnation of Taiwan leaders, with Interior Minister Liu Shy-Fang, saying that freedom of expression “was not an excuse” to ask for Taiwan’s invasion.
Liu is among the more than 400,000 Chinese spouses living in Taiwan, whose activities have been examined more and more in the midst of cross extension tensions.
In a list of measures announced last week to stop Chinese influence and infiltration on the island, Taiwanese President, Lai Ching-Te, asked for a stricter control of cross exchanges, which, according to him, was seen by China as a way to “create internal divisions” in Taiwan.
