China has ignored concerns on the island and repeatedly called for the quick passage of the 2013 Cross-Strait Trade and Services Agreement, which is supposed to open up investments on both sides, including industries such as banking, health care and tourism. In 2014, when the ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) tried to force the bill through the legislature, Taiwan saw its largest outpouring of anti-China sentiment in years.
Hundreds of students occupied the legislature in a protest that became known as the Sunflower Movement. Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese took to the streets and protested outside the Presidential Office.
The warning by Beijing is the latest following the DPP's election sweep. Some members of the movement were elected to the legislature when Taiwan voters cast their ballots in January. Analysts argue that a swelling of youth activism in politics that came with the movement played a key role in Tsai Ing-wen's election victory over the KMT to become the island's first female president . Still, the dramatic and historic shift appears to be a difficult one for authoritarian China to digest. And on Wednesday, the head of a top government body on affairs with Taiwan voiced Beijing's concerns.
Hundreds of students occupied the legislature in a protest that became known as the Sunflower Movement. Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese took to the streets and protested outside the Presidential Office.
The warning by Beijing is the latest following the DPP's election sweep. Some members of the movement were elected to the legislature when Taiwan voters cast their ballots in January. Analysts argue that a swelling of youth activism in politics that came with the movement played a key role in Tsai Ing-wen's election victory over the KMT to become the island's first female president . Still, the dramatic and historic shift appears to be a difficult one for authoritarian China to digest. And on Wednesday, the head of a top government body on affairs with Taiwan voiced Beijing's concerns.
"Anything that damages the basis for consultations and negotiations between the two sides of the strait, interferes in or impedes relevant progress or puts up man-made blocks on the development of ties, we will resolutely oppose," said An Fengshan, spokesman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office. China regards self-ruled Taiwan to be part of its own territory. The two sides split amid a civil war in 1949 and while both were remarkably similar in their authoritarian control for decades, Taiwan eventually began moving toward democracy, holding its first presidential elections in 1996, two decades ago. An also expressed worry is that the bill might usurp power from semi-official bodies that the two sides have set up to navigate their political differences.
But instead of creating more tension, the bill could actually help ease suspicions, said Alexander Huang, an assistant professor at Taiwan's Tamkang University. As a full-fledged democracy, Huang said "it is very natural for our parliament to ask for the rights and exercise their power to supervise Taiwan government deals with any external entities." Huang said that while there are concerns that the bill could refer to the two sides as two countries, a position that Beijing does not accept, the DPP has modified its original version of the law, referring to relations as those across the Taiwan Strait in what he said was a clear signal of goodwill to China.
"With the legislature's supervision, that will strengthen the agreements that are signed between China and Taiwan," he added.
"With the legislature's supervision, that will strengthen the agreements that are signed between China and Taiwan," he added.
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