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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2018/11/20/beijing-cuts-live-coverage-of-golden-horse-awards/" target="_blank">Beijing cuts live coverage of Golden Horse awards</a></h3>
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<p>Source: The Guardian (11/20/18)<br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/20/chinas-oscars-tawian-independence-golden-horse-awards-beijing-cuts-live-coverage">Chinese Oscars: Beijing cuts live coverage after winner calls for independent Taiwan</a><br />
<em>Speech by documentary filmmaker Fu Yue censored after she calls for Taiwan to be recognised as an ‘independent entity’</em><br />
By Benjamin Haas in Seoul</p>
<p>The Chinese-language version of the Oscars, the Golden Horse Awards, have become the latest flashpoint in tense relations between China and <a class="u-underline" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/taiwan" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag">Taiwan</a> after a film director questioned the island’s political status.</p>
<p>Documentary filmmaker Fu Yue called for Taiwan to be recognised as an “independent entity” during her acceptance speech, fighting back tears as she said, “this is my biggest wish as a Taiwanese”. Her speech was quickly censored on Chinese television and streams, with the coverage going black.</p>
<p>For decade China has claimed Taiwan as part of its territory, but the island has been independently ruled since 1949, and in the past two decades has become a flourishing democracy in contrast to Beijing’s authoritarian government. Chinese officials often bristle at suggestions of Taiwanese independence, and <a class="u-underline" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/24/taiwan-criticises-china-after-burkina-faso-ends-diplomatic-relations" data-link-name="in body link">have gone to great lengths</a> to poach Taiwan’s diplomatic allies.</p>
<p>After Fu’s comments, a mainland Chinese actor, Tu Men, echoed Beijing’s line on the status of the island, referring to it as “Taiwan, China”, drawing a rebuke from Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen.</p>
<p>“We have never accepted the phrase “Taiwan, China”, and we never will accept this phrase, Taiwan is simply Taiwan,” Tsai wrote in <a class="u-underline" href="https://www.facebook.com/tsaiingwen/posts/10155495151661065?__xts__[0]=68.ARDZdYj8cbqnT8Taj89tcSovjh63HV02DlIJJhEvs5a1XNIUVy-GqO3mnWXidx8-H_MzcUna75USfLo_BIlznAKxa7ADkEL-eONowq91vq6_nWWExzvhMLkJFRkRWAhT0HDbj11XdZ-Qc2XUtYQo8YyC3Ir1Rz3u5EdwLyIHtQQnCVLpC0t22TkTfzo0lhSEGrVkrtPtwWTjX4FpSfeKj7JFdqsmoRLDp4tgA6c5Cf0BcTrxy8Al_WyjnruQTMgI7z7Oz0yqKrA94rXIsdi8usicKpy0rCVWuS63cwr2gZIhiK9HpERrXd1pJOj7xw-FIDVnTrOuoetRzg&__tn__=-R" data-link-name="in body link">an online post</a>. “I am proud of yesterday’s Golden Horse Awards, which highlights the fact that Taiwan is different from China, and our freedom and diversity is why this is a land where artistic creations can be free.”</p>
<p>Chinese authorities <a class="u-underline" href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3578898" data-link-name="in body link">have banned their citizens</a> from participating in the ceremony next year, according to reports in Taiwanese media.</p>
<p>The debate comes ahead of local elections in Taiwan, which are widely seen as a referendum on Tsai’s pro-independence Democratic Progressive party (DPP). The controversy quickly spread online, where each side took turns praising or condemning Fu’s actions.</p>
<p>Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, who disappeared earlier this year <a class="u-underline" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/03/fan-bingbing-missing-chinese-actor-hit-with-129m-tax-bill" data-link-name="in body link">only to reemerge after admitting to tax evasion</a>, used her now mostly dormant social media account to post a map of China with the phrase “China cannot lose one bit of itself”. The image was first posted several years ago by the Communist Youth League, and nationalism has seen a sharp rise under president Xi Jinping.</p>
<p>That national fervour may have caused a Chinese runner first place in the Suzhou marathon, after organisers tried the thrust a Chinese flag into her hand during the final stretch of the race. After two failed attempts and one Chinese flag thrown to the ground – which itself can result in a three-year prison sentence – the Chinese runner eventually <a class="u-underline" href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2173995/chinese-marathon-runner-loses-race-after-marshal-tries-hand-her" data-link-name="in body link">came second</a> behind her Ethiopian rival, trailing by five seconds.</p>
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