{"id":37556,"date":"2024-09-16T12:03:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T10:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/?p=37556"},"modified":"2024-10-02T16:30:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:30:36","slug":"no-mercy-for-diehards-chinas-anti-secession-law-and-the-case-of-yang-chih-yuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/en\/no-mercy-for-diehards-chinas-anti-secession-law-and-the-case-of-yang-chih-yuan\/","title":{"rendered":"No Mercy for Diehards: China\u2019s Anti-Secession Law and the Case of Yang Chih-yuan"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"37556\" class=\"elementor elementor-37556\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5ac40d80 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5ac40d80\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-24e41417\" data-id=\"24e41417\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-7d977e2d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7d977e2d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-no-translation=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-3403d36f\" data-id=\"3403d36f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22c8f817 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"22c8f817\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>What is happening?<\/h2><p>The<strong> imprisonment of Yang Chih-yuan<\/strong> (\u694a\u667a\u6df5), a Taiwanese activist and co-founder of the Taiwanese National Party \u2013 a fringe political party advocating for Taiwanese independence \u2013 sent shockwaves across the island nation. After Beijing the 22-point set of <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.people.com.cn\/n1\/2024\/0621\/c1001-40261576.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>guidelines<\/strong><\/a><strong> to punish \u201cdie-hard\u201d Taiwanese independence separatists<\/strong> in June, Yang became the<strong> first Taiwanese individual <\/strong>against whom China used <strong>secession charges<\/strong>. China announced its <strong>Anti-Secession Law <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-05\/Yu-Jie_Chen_Testimony.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aimed<\/a> at unifying Taiwan through peaceful negotiation or, under the law\u2019s vaguely defined circumstances, through forced annexation \u2013 in 2005; yet, prior to Yang\u2019s arrest, Beijing had used criminal charges of \u201cseparatism\u201d against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/tothi-birthday-10252021161904.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ethnic minorities<\/a> within the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) rather than Taiwan nationals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mac.gov.tw\/en\/News_Content.aspx?n=A921DFB2651FF92F&amp;sms=37838322A6DA5E79&amp;s=7496ABB6D8F96898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Labeling<\/a> Yang as a \u201c<strong>ringleader of Taiwan independence<\/strong>,\u201d the People\u2019s Court of Wenzhou in eastern China handed him a nine-year prison sentence on August 26. Yang\u2019s case demonstrates that China is increasingly using <strong>lawfare as a tool of its multifaceted pressure campaign<\/strong> to compel Taiwan into compliance as Beijing aspires to annex its territory.<\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2>What is the broader picture?<\/h2><p>A Taiwanese political activist, Chinese authorities apprehended Yang Chih-yuan in Wenzhou, Zhejiang on August 3, 2022 \u2013 <strong>one day after the then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/focustaiwan.tw\/politics\/202208035001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>began her visit<\/strong><\/a><strong> to Taiwan<\/strong>. Noting that Yang\u2019s arrest took place more than seven months after his arrival to China and several years after he terminated his political activities, the NGO Safeguard Defenders <a href=\"https:\/\/safeguarddefenders.com\/en\/blog\/cross-strait-coercion-china-makes-rare-separatist-arrest-taiwanese-citizen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considers<\/a> his arrest \u201c<strong>arbitrary<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>politically motivated.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p><p>The case of Yang Chih-yuan is <strong>emblematic<\/strong> for two main reasons. Firstly, he is <strong>the first known Taiwanese individual detained in the PRC on separatism charges<\/strong>. While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a long track record of persecuting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/mongolia-trial-04122019153038.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mongolians<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.org\/nine-tibetans-sentenced-for-separatism-by-kardze-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tibetans<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/tothi-birthday-10252021161904.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uyghurs<\/a> within China and accusing them of splitism, Yang\u2019s <strong>charges are unusual for a non-PRC citizen<\/strong>. Secondly, Yang\u2019s arrest demonstrates that China is willing to use its domestic legislation, including the 2005 Anti-Secession Law and the 22 guidelines released this year, to <strong>criminalize activities perpetrated <em>outside <\/em>of the PRC territory<\/strong>. This is an intimidation tactic which the CCP uses to send a stern warning to the people of Taiwan amid its efforts to extend its claim of jurisdiction over Taiwanese citizens.<\/p><p><strong>Lawfare<\/strong>, or legal warfare, constitutes a core component of the PRC\u2019s doctrine of <strong>political warfare. <\/strong>Formulated in 2003, the non-kinetic strategy of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cimsec.org\/plas-latest-strategic-thinking-three-warfares\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Three Warfares<\/strong><\/a>\u201d posits that the CCP should be able to <strong>achieve China\u2019s national objectives<\/strong> and <strong>break the adversary\u2019s <\/strong>(in this case, Taiwan\u2019s) <strong>resistance<\/strong> through as <strong>public opinion<\/strong>, <strong>psychological<\/strong>, and <strong>legal warfare. <\/strong>A tool of lawfare aimed at Taiwan, The new guidelines for &#8220;punishing Taiwan&#8217;s independendists&#8221; allow for <strong>criminal prosecution of alleged separatist activities<\/strong> carried out overseas, which also <strong>effectively <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pf.org.tw\/tw\/pfch\/13-10805.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>constrains the freedom of speech<\/strong><\/a> of actors connected to China through economic, social, or academic ties.<\/p><p>In response to Yang\u2019s sentencing,<strong> the Mainland Affairs Council <\/strong>\u2013 Taiwan\u2019s ministerial level body responsible for cross-strait relations \u2013 <strong>underscored the arbitrary nature of his arrest <\/strong>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mac.gov.tw\/en\/News_Content.aspx?n=A921DFB2651FF92F&amp;sms=37838322A6DA5E79&amp;s=7496ABB6D8F96898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emphasized<\/a> that \u201c<strong>any Taiwanese individual can be labeled as a Taiwan independence separatist <\/strong>at the wanton discretion of the CCP.\u201d<\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2>Why does it matter?<\/h2><p>Taiwan frequently serves as a <strong>laboratory<\/strong> or a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.mofa.gov.tw\/News_Content.aspx?n=1575&amp;s=116285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testing ground<\/a>\u201d for <strong>new coercive instruments <\/strong>that China uses to realize its <strong>regional hegemonic ambitions<\/strong>. Importantly, Taiwan is hardly the only target of the CCP\u2019s political warfare, including lawfare. While domestic legislation, including the 2005 Anti-Secession Law, is used as both <strong>an instrument of intimidation <\/strong>and <strong>a legal basis for the potential launch of kinetic warfare <\/strong>\u2013 including to achieve the annexation of Taiwan by force \u2013 Chinese lawfare also includes manipulation of international law. One example thereof is the sustained effort by Beijing <strong>to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmfus.org\/news\/distortion-un-resolution-2758-and-limits-taiwans-access-united-nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>distort the meaning of the UN Resolution 2758<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Beijing\u2019s revisionism intends to misguide the international community into the belief that the document is a legal foundation of its \u201cone China\u201d principle, while in reality, it does not regulate the status of Taiwan. Consequently, <strong>it is imperative that the democratic community closely monitors China\u2019s efforts to employ lawfare as a tool of its malign authoritarian influence<\/strong>, seeking to distort the rule-based international order.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? The imprisonment of Yang Chih-yuan (\u694a\u667a\u6df5), a Taiwanese activist and co-founder of the Taiwanese National Party \u2013 a fringe political party advocating for Taiwanese independence \u2013 sent shockwaves across the island nation. 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