China Imprisons a Taiwanese Person for ’Separatism’ for the First Time

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By Bloomberg News Updated: September 6, 2024 12:25 AM EDT | Originally published: September 6, 2024 12:00 AM EDT C hina handed a nine-year prison term to a Taiwanese political activist convicted of “separatism,” a rare sentence that prompted Taiwan to warn its people about the dangers of traveling across the strait. Yang Chih-yuan received the term in a court in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said in a briefing on Thursday, according to the semi-official

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