The Taiwan’s government had on Thursday, deported two Chinese nationals after they disrupted a protest held by Hong Kong exiles in Taipei on China’s national day.
Democratically ruled Taiwan, which Beijing is claiming as its own territory, is home to a large Hong Kong community who have exited the city following the imposition of strict, new national security laws after wide-scale anti-government protests.
The Hong Kong Outlanders group said that on October 1, China’s national day, they organised a small protest in central Taipei’s fashionable Ximen shopping district but they were verbally harassed and pushed around by a group of Chinese people.
“Fortunately, the police intervened,” the group added.
Meanwhile, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council had said that the two Chinese nationals who were involved in the incident, were meant to be in Taiwan visiting relatives, but had had their entry permits revoked and were now deported.
“The government will take immediate and strict action against any mainland Chinese who come to Taiwan and engage in illegal or irregular behaviour that endangers our national security and social stability,” the statement read.
