On March 13, Taiwanese President Lai Ching -Te called for a more difficult response to Beijing, describing China as a “foreign hostile force” with the intention of “absorbing” the democratic island – the most difficult rhetoric to date for Beijing of a Taiwanese leader.
In response, Chinese officials called Lai as a “destructive of cross peace” and a “creator of the crisis in the Taiwan Strait”.
The stormy exchange continued online, some Chinese -language social media users spread rumors about Taiwan soldiers.
You will find below what the AFCL has found.
Conscription orders, military court
A former Chinese video surveillance journalist, Rui Chenggang, said he received conscription orders from the Taiwan government in a post on March 15.
“Taiwan’s conscription command has already been delivered to us. Now why not take a page of [South Korean President] The experience of Martial Law of Yoon Suk Yeol and declares independence? »The complaint can be read
The complaint was shared alongside two images.
China considers a province of rupture in Taiwan and increased military pressure by exercises and incursions. Taiwan, however, considers itself a sovereign state and continues to strengthen its defenses.
But the complaint made by Rui Chenggang is false.
The images shared in the position of Rui actually show a letter for a pre -collecting call for reservists to participate in the training of skills in military camps, and not conscription orders.
Taiwan has a conscription system which obliges male citizens eligible to serve in the army for a defined period, but the AFCL found no credible report or announces that the island issued conscription orders specifically to declare independence.
In addition, some Chinese language users also said that Taiwan would put soldiers who refused to participate in training on reservists in trial within the framework of the military judicial system, following the LAI proposal to restore it.
But this statement is also false.
On March 13, Lai only proposed to restore a military judicial system, which was under martial law until the late 1980s.
As of March 28, Taiwan did not restore such a system.
Are Taiwanese soldiers afraid without having been assigned to parents?
Does a video show Taiwanese soldiers “shocked” because they were assigned to a front line?
A report on X said that the recent Taiwanese recruits assigned to an artillery brigade on Kinmen Island were shocked and lost their breath.
A video was shared on X on March 14 in parallel with an assertion that she shows that Taiwanese soldiers are “shocked” and “lose their breath” after being assigned to Kinmen, a small Taiwanese archipelago just off the coast of continental China, which has already been an area of conflict between Beijing and Taipei.
But the complaint is false. An inverted image search revealed that the video had been removed from the Taiwanese television drama “Rookies’ Diary” produced by Formosa Television.
Another research revealed that the video had been taken from the 40th episode of the drama.
The AFCL previously untied the assertions on the army of Taiwan here and here.
Translated by Shen Ke. Edited by Tajun Kang.
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