Taiwan's pro-independence opposition party is distributing 10,000
"Taiwan is my country" passport stickers to the people to protest
against the island's depiction as part of China in the new Chinese passport.
"We want our international
friends to clearly see that Taiwan is a sovereign state, not part of
China," said Wang Min-sheng, spokesman for the Democratic Progressive
Party (DPP).
Designed to be pasted on the back
cover of the Taiwanese passport, the sticker shows eight countries of the South
China Sea, including China, Vietnam, the Philippines and Singapore, plus a
highlighted Taiwan - embellished with a smiley face - and its offshore islands
of Kinmen, Matsu, Orchid and Penghu.
The disputed Spratlys, a cluster
of uninhabited islets believed to sit on gas and oil reserves and which is
claimed by China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan's
Kuomintang government, is conspicuously absent.
China had caused an uproar in
Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines last week after its new biometric passport,
in use since May, was found to contain maps demarcating both Taiwan and the
Spratlys as part of Chinese territory.
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou
and the Cabinet-level Mainland Affairs Council issued separate statements
denouncing the passport as "inappropriate" and "provocative".
Wang, who is also an aide to DPP
chairman Su Tseng-chang, told The Straits Times yesterday that the Ma
administration had not done enough to protest against China's "serious
violation of our sovereignty".
The DPP's sticker, he added, was
designed by the party's information department and would be dispatched to the
party's offices across Taiwan either today or tomorrow for distribution to the
public.
Responding to the move, the
foreign affairs ministry yesterday urged the public to not use the stickers on
their passports, saying it might invalidate the document.
Lee Seok Hwai
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