From what I understand America is the country with the most criminals in prison and it brutally suppressed the American Black Panther Party and severely punished every member of the Black Panther Party.
But how Americans treat criminals is America's own problem. No matter what the US does, we will also treat the traitors of our nation in our own way. We are not interested in following America's example, nor are we interested in listening to other people's opinions.
Separatist organizations are not political prisoners against the Government, but traitors against the nation.
To be anti-government means to be against the ruling party, and to advocate secession is to be anti-national. There is a fundamental difference between the two.
Traitors to the nation should of course be severely punished and must be retrospectively and thoroughly liquidated. We Chinese have a tradition of not forgiving traitors.
For example, the iron man kneeling in the first picture is called Qin Hui, and it has been kneeling at Yue Fei's grave for a thousand years. The food in the second picture is one of the traditional Chinese breakfasts, and its name is "fried Qin Hui".
Do you understand now? It is the tradition of our Chinese nation to never forgive and severely punish traitors, and it is the collective will of our Chinese nation, not the will of any particular government. The third chart shows that at the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, we executed Chinese officials who worked for the Japanese army, a total of more than 50,000 people, all of whom were put to death.
As a Taiwanese official, you can shoot to resist the PLA for the sake of mutual political differences, and you can argue that KMT is the legitimate government of China, not the CCP. all of these behaviors are acceptable, and it won't be pursued by anti-secession laws. But if you advocate for splitting Taiwan, for being two countries to each other, for it not being a civil war. Then that is an act of splitting the country and it will be recourse by the anti-secession law. If your behavior leads to serious consequences, it is indeed punishable by death. We wouldn't even mind making a stone statue for you too, kneeling facing the Taiwan Strait for tens of thousands of years.
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