Chinese authorities have pressured popular Taiwanese rock band Mayday to make pro-China statements ahead of elections on the island. This was reported by Reuters Citing informed sources and an internal document from Taiwan’s intelligence services.
According to the agency, the musicians were required to openly support Beijing’s position that Taiwan belongs to China and participate in Chinese “media propaganda” on the island.
It is also known that the National Radio and Television Administration of the People’s Republic of China suspected the rock band of making music to put pressure on them and announced that an investigation was launched against the musicians. Such concerts are prohibited in China.
Chinese authorities threatened the band with inspections and fines and asked the musicians for a vague “political favor,” but they refused.
If the group does not cooperate, it will have to pay the price, one of the sources told Reuters.
According to the Taiwanese side, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is responsible for this campaign against musicians.
Before that, Ministry of Defense of the People’s Republic of China accused The Taiwanese government is deliberately inflating the military threat from China in order to win over the ruling party in the island’s January 13 elections. Reuters stated that the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in Taiwan will determine the island’s relations with Beijing, which has increased military pressure in the last four years.
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