Taiwan is also concerned that China could infiltrate the country, with spies posing as activists. FMTNews
Lam Wing-kee reopened his Hong Kong bookstore, the Causeway Bay Book shop, in Taipei on April 25.
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen last month became the first government leader anywhere to pledge measures to help Hong Kong people who leave due to what they see as tightening Chinese controls, including newly introduced national security legislation, smothering their democratic aspirations.Taiwan, for decades just as wary of the mainland as many in the former British colony of Hong Kong are, is working on a humanitarian relief plan for the expected arrivals, officials say.
It is too early to gauge how many might come but Taiwan does not expect the number to be more than the thousands of people who came from Vietnam from the mid-1970s, most fleeing the communist takeover of what had been US-backed South Vietnam. “This is a very complicated scenario that Taiwan government has never dealt with,” said the source who declined to be identified as the information about plans has not been made public.China’s Taiwan Affairs Office did not respond to a request for comment.
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