University and High School Students Oppose Chinese Delegation's Visit to Taiwan

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Taiwanese university and high school students are protesting a visiting Chinese delegation, calling their exchanges "fake" and saying they are part of China's united front tactics.

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00:00Taiwanese university and high school students are speaking out against a Chinese delegation

00:04that's on a nine-day trip to Taiwan.

00:07拒绝统战,对等交流

00:10Some of the students say the 40-strong delegation of Chinese students and athletes had visited

00:15their universities, and they'd wanted to talk to them, but weren't given an opportunity.

00:20A student from National Taiwan University said only certain students who'd been pre-selected

00:25could participate.

00:26That happened at NTU, but as a student from NTU, we have no open information, we have

00:31no way to know when and where it's going to happen, until some of our students went to

00:37the school office and the college office to ask, is this event going to happen, and then

00:45we know the Chinese people are coming to our school, but we have no way to enter after

00:53asking.

00:54The Chinese group was invited to Taiwan by former President Ma Ying-jeou's foundation

00:58in an effort to foster cross-strait communications and exchanges.

01:02The foundation's CEO says young people are the future of cross-strait relations, and

01:06these kinds of exchanges are crucial to maintaining peace across the strait.

01:10But the students here say they don't think the delegation is interested in real exchange.

01:13我们希望可以分享台湾的经验给中国,但是很遗憾的,从中国同学

01:19回避接触、快步离去的结果来看,中国的参访团其实丝毫不想与我们进行真正的交流。

01:26And they say these exchanges were not built on respect, as they should have been.

01:31They pointed to a comment by one of the students in the Chinese delegation, where he referred

01:34to Taiwan's national baseball team, who won last month's Premier 12 championship as

01:39quote, China Taipei.

01:41It also comes after criticism that many in the Chinese group are affiliated with China's

01:45Communist Party, and some local groups say the Chinese students are being used as united

01:49front tools, undermining Taiwan's independence.

01:53The Chinese delegation is currently at a closed-door activity at a university in Hsinchu, but many

01:58across the country are keeping a close eye on their movements.

02:02Justin Wu and Cadence Coranta for Taiwan Plus.

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