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Pro-China Snack Attack

At the Beijing Cross-Strait summit, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council condemned Want Want China Times Media Group for sovereignty-damaging comments.
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Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) condemned Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) for making comments at the Cross-Strait Chinese Culture Summit in Beijing that it said damaged Taiwan’s sovereignty, adding that it would investigate if the group had colluded with China and contravened cross-strait regulations. “We are Chinese,” Want Want Holdings general manager Tsai Wang-ting (蔡旺庭) said at the May 28 summit, referring to China as the “motherland” and Taiwan as “China Taiwan.”

The MAC said the media group, which frequently conveys what critics in Taiwan regard as pro-China positions, had become “a pawn in the CCP’s united front work against Taiwan.” It said it would examine whether Want Want’s actions violated regulations prohibiting cooperation with China’s party, government, or military apparatus. Tsai Wang-ting is the third son of firm founder Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明), who succeeded his father as chairman of the snack food company Want Want China in 1987.

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