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Taiwan this week urged its people not to go to China unless absolutely necessary, as China’s new legal guidelines threatened prosecution and, in extreme cases, the death penalty for Taiwan independence separatists. The warning appeared to also apply to those living in Hong Kong and Macau.
But the Chinese Taiwan Affairs Office said on Friday that its new legal guidelines were only aimed at separatists and their “evil words and actions”.
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