China Offers Bounties: Taiwan's 'Separatist Propaganda' Sounds Familiar
China's bounty scheme, targeting Taiwanese military personnel deemed 'separatists,' frames any deviation from Beijing's narrative as subversion. This isn't just about 'national security'; it’s an attempt to quash a separate, democratically elected government by labeling its defenders as traitors. One might recall similar accusations leveled by various occupying powers against resistance movements
advocating for self-determination. The 'propaganda' here is simply any word not sanctioned by the CCP. The absurdity is in the double-speak: Beijing claims Taiwan is an inalienable part of China but then needs a cash bounty system to gather intelligence on its own alleged 'citizens.' It raises the question: if Taiwan is so firmly theirs, why the desperate intel grab against individuals upholding
its democratic structures? Clearly, some 'separatist propaganda' is more inconvenient to authoritarians than others.