news.com.au: Communist-occupied China has repeatedly pushed the limits with the sovereign democratic island nation of Taiwan by flexing its military muscle near the island. Missile tests have been fired off nearby and Communist Chinese fighter jets have flown through Taiwan’s airspace. The People’s republic claims Taiwan as its own territory, to be seized one day, and has intensified its pressure on the island in recent years. The Taiwan Affairs Office, in Communist-occupied Beijing, has ramped up its rhetoric saying that “the mainland will pursue criminal responsibility for Taiwan independence diehards in accordance with the law, to be effective for life”, threatening to ban them from Communist-occupied China.