TAO probe of Liu Shyh-fang nephew harms ties: MACBy Chen Yu-fu and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerA vow by China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) to investigate Minister of the Interior Liu Shyh-fang’s (劉世芳) nephew is a case of transnational repression and is detrimental to cross-strait interactions, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said in an interview published yesterday. On Friday, Hong Kong newspaper Ta Kung Pao (大公報) reported that Liu had received political donations from her nephew Yen Wen-chun (顏文群). Mainland Affairs Council Minister Chiu Chui-cheng is pictured in an undated photograph. The office in January listed Liu as a “diehard Taiwanese independence separatist,” and banned her and members of her family from entering China and its territories. The guidelines grant Beijing the pretext to launch investigations into people it suspects of supporting Taiwanese independence, he said.

Source: Taipei Times March 03, 2026 17:19 UTC