The Taiwan Affairs Office responds to Lai Ching-te's recommendation of a mainland Chinese noodle restaurant.

On the morning of December 17, the Taiwan Affairs Office held a routine press conference. A journalist asked about Lai Ching-te recently recommending a mainland noodle restaurant, stating that "Taiwan is a diverse and open society." Public opinion in Taiwan criticized Lai Ching-te for cheap acting, attempting to use eating a bowl of noodles to cover up his practices of violating human rights and discriminating against specific ethnic groups. What is your comment on this? Spokesperson Zhu Fenglian of the Taiwan Affairs Office: Cross-strait marriages and families are the most vivid and direct embodiment of the "one family on both sides of the strait" concept, and should receive the best blessings and most caring protection. Since taking office, Lai Ching-te has stubbornly adhered to a stance of promoting Taiwan independence, treating cross-strait marriage partners as thorns in his side, using various methods to deprive them of their legitimate rights, and engaging in repression and persecution, seriously disrupting the peaceful lives of cross-strait marriage families. While Lai Ching-te bullies and persecutes cross-strait marriage partners in Taiwan, he also hypocritically creates false images and puts on a show, which is extremely deceitful and cannot deceive people on both sides of the strait.