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Taiwan President: "Welcome home, Tzuyu."
^ The photo that started the unjustified witch-hunt on Chou Tzuyu, one of South Korea's fastest rising idols, and the most popular member of girl group TWICE. China banned all her Chinese activities for simply saying "she's from Taiwan" and waving the Taiwanese flag on a Korean TV show.
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Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou “regrets the incident happened and sympathises with” Chou Tzu-Yu, he said Saturday morning through presidential spokesperson Charles Chen.
Chou said earlier in the clip of her apologising, which was released by her entertainment agency JYP Entertainment, that she would suspend all of her performance in “China” - which pundits have taken to mean both the mainland and Taiwan.
“No citizen should be punished for recognising the Republic of China and expression their affection for the national flag,” Ma said.
Eric Chu, KMT’s candidate for today’s presidential race, said late Friday night that what Chou experienced “is too cruel for a sixteen-year-old”.
“Welcome home, Chou Tzu-Yu,” he said on his Facebook page around midnight.
All three presidential candidates, Tsai Ing-wen, Eric Chu Li-luan of the KMT, and James Soong Chu-yu of the People First Party, also expressed their regret, saying no one should try to deprive a Taiwan national of the right to hold a Taiwan national flag.
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