After nearly a month, Taiwanese citizens quarantined in China's coronavirus epicenter are chafing. Geopolitics is adding to the tension.
Chen Chi-chuan was grateful when his hotel near the epicenter of the China coronavirus outbreak offered him three free meals a day, from rice porridge breakfasts to specially prepared vegetarian dinners, while he remains barred from leaving China to return to Taiwan.
But aggravation is mounting among the nearly 1,000 visitors, investors and workers from Taiwan stuck behind closed doors this month in the disease outbreak zone.The stranded Taiwanese say they notice a slew of infuriating differences in China. They cite state television newscasts thin on specifics, controlled internet access, lack of adequate medications, a ban on going outside and their being blocked from flying home from the outbreak zone as Americans and Europeans have done.
He suspects he’s receiving incomplete news about the disease formally called COVID-19 even though he is quarantined within the outbreak zone. The Chinese TV channels he watches in his room carry only state-controlled information that he worries might downplay seriousness of the outbreak. The Chinese internet is no better, he says.“Chinese TV is really boring, and the media reports are not as free and open as they are in Taiwan.” Chen said via China’s state-monitored WeChat social media app.
Liu, a naturalized Taiwan citizen through marriage, has joined a social media group with 200 other Taiwanese quarantined in or near Wuhan since Jan. 25. That day was Lunar New Year, a major Chinese holiday and the reason she went back to visit. Her husband, a teacher, remained behind.Her children can only play video games much of the day. And they don’t like the food. “They’re just coping with it,” she said.
China claims sovereignty over Taiwan despite the island’s self-rule for more than 70 years and insists that the two sides will eventually unify.
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