The ongoing 2022 Winter Olympic Games and the just concluded Chinese Spring Festival holidays, this year s biggest sports pageant and the most important festival for Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, have predictably become a tool for the pro-secessionist Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority to reignite the
As the 2022 Spring Festival approaches, various cultural performances have been held in the Chinese mainland and entertainers from the island of Taiwan are welcome to join these performances and celebrate the grandest traditional festival with mainland residents, the Taiwan Affairs Office said on Wednesday.
‘NEW YEAR GIFT’: While the MAC called the song propaganda, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said that it addressed the homesickness of ‘Taiwanese compatriots’By Chen Yu-fu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A pro-unification pop song aired on Chinese television earlier this month would only further sour Taiwanese sentiment toward China, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said on Wednesday.
The music video for <i>We Sing the Same Song</i> (我們同唱一首歌), which aired on China Central Television, features Chinese artists performing alongside Taiwanese singers Jam Hsiao (蕭敬騰), Ouyang Nana (歐陽娜娜) and Chen Li-nong (陳立農).
The lyrics were reportedly written by Taiwanese lyricist Vincent Fang (方文山), known for his collaborations with Jay Chou (周杰倫), to music composed by a Chinese musician.
Sung in Chinese and Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese), the song is about three Taiwanese siblings who