On December 31, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a regular press conference. A reporter asked about the recent passage by the Taiwan Executive Yuan of a draft amendment to the "Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area," which proposes adding provisions to include elected officials and mayors who have left office for less than three years in the category of personnel requiring permits to travel to the mainland. The Mainland Affairs Council stated that this move enhances security and strengthens public oversight, preventing "united front infiltration" by the mainland. What is your comment on this?
In response, Zhang Han, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office, stated that the DPP authorities, driven by their pro-independence nature, have deliberately obstructed cross-strait exchanges and damaged cross-strait relations, engaging in "Taiwan independence authoritarianism" and "green terror" on the island, causing widespread fear and insecurity in Taiwanese society, and has already met with increasing opposition and condemnation from the Taiwanese people. Facts have proven and will continue to prove that the public's desire for peace, development, exchange, and cooperation cannot be suppressed, and the surging tide of cross-strait exchange and cooperation cannot be stopped.
