National Taiwan University calls on the Taiwan authorities to open up land students to return to Taiwan to study as soon as possible
China Taiwan Net, July 21, according to Taiwan's "China Times" report, the Taiwan authorities have successively opened 19 "medium and low infection risk areas" students to return to Taiwan, but about 7,500 mainland students are still blocked. The National Taiwan University issued an official statement on the 20th, stating that the number of newly diagnosed cases in the mainland in the past two weeks was lower than that of Japan, Singapore, and Australia. In response, the education department of the Taiwan authorities stated that related matters are being discussed through inter-departmental consultations.
Taiwan University quoted public data from the World Health Organization as saying that the number of newly confirmed cases in the past 14 days was about 5,100 in Japan, more than 2,900 in Singapore, and nearly 3,000 in Australia. However, these three regions have been listed as “low-medium-low” by Taiwan authorities. Areas at risk of infection". At the same time, the number of confirmed cases in mainland China (including Hong Kong and Macau) is much lower than the above-mentioned regions, but mainland students have been excluded from the list of returning to Taiwan.
National Taiwan University pointed out that the Epidemic Command Center in Taiwan only requires home quarantine for 14 days after entering Taiwan. From the perspective of infection risk and epidemic prevention requirements, there is no need to continue to prohibit mainland students from returning to Taiwan.
According to statistics from National Taiwan University, the school originally had about 500 mainland students, of which as many as 451 had not entered the country, and most of them were graduate students. National Taiwan University urges the Taiwan authorities to take the students’ studies and future in mind, and follow the conditions of returning to Taiwan for students from “medium-low infection risk areas”, and open up mainland students to return to Taiwan as soon as possible.
In response to the DPP authorities’ ban on Lu Sheng and Lu’s children from returning to Taiwan, Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, once stated that the DPP authorities have been deliberately targeting some Taiwan compatriots returning from the mainland, Lu Sheng studying in Taiwan, and children from cross-strait marriage families. The adoption of discriminatory measures has seriously damaged their legitimate rights and interests. This kind of political manipulation that deviates from the humanitarian stand has been criticized by fair public opinion on the island and people from all walks of life on the island. The DPP authorities should face up to the reasonable needs of Lu Sheng and cross-strait marriages and families, respect their legitimate requirements for returning to Taiwan to study and realize family reunification, and abolish discriminatory measures as soon as possible. (China Taiwan Network Li Ning)