This move has aroused public doubts, and many mainland students accused the DPP authorities of "reforming policies day and night". Taiwanese media believe that this move is obviously due to political considerations, and many university presidents and supervisors have "curled". Ac

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According to Taiwan media reports, the Taiwan education department sent a letter to colleges and universities on the 5th, announcing that old students from overseas who are not fresh graduates will be open to study in Taiwan from now on, but made a sharp turn in the evening, saying that "due to cross-strait considerations", the list of people who are lifted from bans was excluded from mainland China. This move has aroused public doubts, and many mainland students accused the DPP authorities of "reforming policies day and night". Taiwanese media believe that this move is obviously due to political considerations, and many university presidents and supervisors have "curled".

According to Taiwan’s “United News Network”, the Taiwan education department has successively opened 19 low-risk and medium-risk countries or regions to return to Taiwan since mid-June. On July 22, fresh graduates from abroad will be opened to enter the country, including fresh graduates from mainland students. On the 5th, the Taiwan education department issued a document to universities that "the students who have degree students from abroad outside 19 countries/regions will be allowed to study in Taiwan", and mainland students are not excluded.

"Second Minister of Education" Liu Mengqi also said in the evening that all overseas students (except for freshmen) can apply for entry from the 5th. There are estimated that more than 10,000 qualified students, of which more than 5,000 mainland students account for the largest part. As for the lifting of the ban on foreign students, it depends on the quarantine order and circumstances.

But when Liu Mengqi answered a reporter's question, he was temporarily called away by his staff and was nearly 3 minutes away from the seat. After returning, he changed his words and said, "Due to some considerations related to the two sides of the Taiwan Strait", mainland students are not within the scope of lifting the ban, and only fresh graduates can apply to come to Taiwan. The reporters present were in an uproar. The reporter asked why the main person who ruled out the Land Student? Liu said that the competent authority for cross-strait affairs (i.e., the Mainland Affairs Commission of Taiwan) "has different opinions" on opening up the old students of mainland China and threw the ball back to the Mainland Affairs Commission. Taiwan’s education department also issued a second edition notice to each university, saying that the lifting of the ban policy will exclude mainland students.

This move triggered a rebound in public opinion on the island. Zuo Zhengdong, director of the Kuomintang Mainland Affairs Department, said that the Taiwan education department has issued notices and the policy has been temporarily called for a temporary call, which is a disability of the administrative agency and called on the "Premier of the Executive" Su Zhenchang to come forward to explain; the Mainland Affairs Committee should also explain clearly what the "cross-strait considerations" are?

"China Times Electronic News" said that this move was obviously due to political considerations, and many university presidents and supervisors scolded them. Wu Yonggan, president of Shih Hsin University, said that private schools have already notified mainland students to enter the country, and the education department suddenly changed, "This joke is too big."

"Legislator" Chen Yuzhen said that the DPP authorities' "hairpin bend" practice was shocking. She will convene the "Interior Committee" to go to the Mainland Affairs Committee to find out the situation. "It depends on how the Mainland Affairs Committee responds!"

Regarding the issue of mainland students studying in Taiwan returning to school, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council has repeatedly emphasized that their rights and interests should be respected and protected. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the DPP authorities have been deliberately taking discriminatory measures against some Taiwanese compatriots returning to Taiwan from the mainland, mainland students studying in Taiwan, and children from cross-strait marriages and families, which seriously damages their legitimate rights and interests. This kind of political manipulation that deviates from humanitarian stance has been criticized by fair public opinion on the island and people from all walks of life.

Source: Overseas Network