Taiwan Affairs Office rebuts Taiwan MAC's reason for refusing Zhang Linghe's visit to Taiwan: untenable.

On October 28, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a regular press conference. In response to the MAC's claim that Zhang Linghe's application to visit Taiwan was rejected because he had repeatedly made remarks disparaging Taiwan's status in the past, spokesperson Chen Binhua said in reply that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory. Mainland entertainers longing for national reunification and opposing "Taiwan independence" separatism is entirely justified and a matter of course. The DPP authorities, using utterly untenable reasons, refused entry to a mainland artist widely loved by Taiwanese audiencesthis wins no support and will surely be opposed.