Taiwan to bear brunt of China's wrath over Hong Kong

Attendees waving the Taiwanese flag during the Kuomintang national congress in Taipei, on July 28, 2019.
PHOTO: AFP
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BEIJING - China has frozen individual travel to Taiwan and boycotted the annual Golden Horse awards, the self-ruled island's Chinese Oscars, ostensibly to undermine President Tsai Ing-wen's re-election bid next year.

But the worst may be yet to come.

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