China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (國務院台灣事務辦公室), a ministerial-level agency focused on pressing China’s territorial claims and often involved in disinformation campaigns targeting Taiwan, launched a new website column on March 26, 2025, encouraging people to report “Taiwan independence” (台獨) activities. Later the same afternoon, Chinese state media reported that the snitch page — essentially an attempt at participatory propaganda — had received 323 reports from the public, including accusations against Liu Shih-fang (劉世芳), Taiwan’s interior minister, and a number of legislators for the country’s Democratic Progressive Party.
According to a report by Taiwan’s United Daily News (UDN), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher Chen Guiqing (陳桂清) warned that “Taiwan independence thugs” would face the mainland’s “powerful anti-independence punch” while criticizing President Lai’s actions as promoting “anti-Chinese sentiment.”
