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By Chen Yu-fu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Mainland Affairs Council （MAC） in a report vowed to continue organizing youth camps on cross-strait relations to better educate young Taiwanese on “united front” strategies employed by Beijing.

The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) in a report vowed to continue organizing youth camps on cross-strait relations to better educate young Taiwanese on “united front” strategies employed by Beijing. The report on the council’s work to counteract China’s targeting of young Taiwanese was required by the Legislative Yuan to unfreeze this year’s funding for certain MAC projects. The council said that it has organized a study camp on cross-strait relations for college students, drawing 65 participants to discuss “cross-strait and international developments.” Through sand table exercise...

2021/02/04 10:54 (gettyimages) (gettyimages) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Amid the implementation of the draconian national security law in Hong Kong last year, the number of Hongkongers moving to Taiwan doubled from 2019, surpassing 10,000. The controversial security law was passed in June of 2020, and since then a number of prominent activists have been rounded up and thrown in prison. In order to flee tyranny, many began seeking refuge in other countries, and neighboring Taiwan increasingly became an attractive option. On July 1...

Hong Kongers need help, not pity By Chin Heng-wei 金恒煒 Taiwan can help, and Taiwan is helping. Oh, really? How about the Hong Kongers terrorized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? Why are Taiwanese not helping them, when Taiwanese should be saving them? Could it be that all Taiwan can do is gift masks during a pandemic? President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) talks of the plight of the three young Hong Kong campaigners who have been imprisoned — Joshua Wong (黃之鋒), Agnes Chow (周庭) and Ivan Lam (林朗彥) — but she just repeats flaccid calls to action, such as: “We either de...