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China has added Interior Minister Liu Shyh\u2011fang and Education Minister Cheng (Zheng) Ying\u2011yao to a sanctions list, banning them and their immediate family from entering mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. A move Beijing says targets \u201cdie\u2011hard Taiwan independence secessionists\u201d and which Taipei has condemned as politically motivated.<\/p>\n
The designations were announced on 7 January by the Taiwan Affairs Office and the Ministry of Public Security, which said the two serving cabinet ministers had been added to a list of officials accused of promoting separatism. Beijing described the measures as part of a broader effort to deter what it calls \u201cindependence activities\u201d and said unspecified punishments could follow for those who persist in such actions.<\/p>\n
China\u2019s measures impose permanent travel bans on the ministers and extend restrictions to their immediate family members, according to the official statement. Beijing framed the action within its domestic legal architecture on cross\u2011Strait affairs, signalling that administrative and legal tools not only diplomatic protests will be used to penalise individuals it deems to be undermining sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n
Taiwan\u2019s authorities reacted strongly, denouncing the blacklisting as political intimidation and interference in Taiwan\u2019s internal affairs. Taipei argued the move is largely symbolic ,neither minister is likely to travel to the mainland but warned it will further damage cross\u2011Strait channels of communication and inflame public sentiment on the island.<\/p>\n
Analysts see the action as part of a pattern in which Beijing increasingly combines legal, economic and administrative measures with military pressure to signal red lines on Taiwan. The step follows months of heightened Chinese military activity around the island and a diplomatic campaign to limit Taiwan\u2019s international space, raising concerns among regional partners about the erosion of the status quo.<\/p>\n
China maintains several unilateral sanctions and blacklisting mechanisms administered by different agencies; these tools have been used selectively in recent years to punish foreign individuals and entities deemed hostile to Chinese interests. The latest designations extend that practice to serving Taiwanese officials, marking a notable intensification in the use of non\u2011military coercive measures.<\/p>\n
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