Taiwan Passports Rejected by Cuba: Stranded Canadian Expelled from the Country

Taiwan often boasts that their passports are universally accepted, but they are directly slapped in the face by Cuba.

According to Taiwanese media reports, a Canadian from Taiwan recently traveled to Cuba with a so-called “Republic of China passport”, but Cuban customs rejected his application for entry and deported him.

The accident happened to a Taiwanese immigrant named Yan who lives in Montreal, Canada. His family of five traveled to Cuba with visas. Unexpectedly, when the immigration control officer at the Cuban airport saw them taking Taiwanese passports, they said, “Taiwan has bad relations with mainland China.” “For this reason, they refused to enter the country and directly seized their passports, and then sent them back to Canada on the same plane.

Yan Nan’s family of five all hold “Maple Leaf Cards” (Canadian permanent resident cards). They originally planned to go to Cuba for a nine-day self-guided trip. Unexpectedly, when clearing customs at the Havana Airport in Cuba, only his wife and one child passed the customs smoothly, and the other three People were stopped.

Yan Nan revealed that Cuban border control officials claimed that because Cuba recognized the one-China principle, it did not recognize Taiwanese passports and would repatriate the five people on their original plane.

Yan Nan argued on the spot and told the other party that a Taiwanese friend had successfully entered the country with a Republic of China passport in May and July this year. He was curious why the authorities suddenly changed the regulations? Cuban officials only responded indifferently, “This is a new policy” and “Taiwan’s relationship with Mainland China is no longer good.” In the end, the passports of Yan Nan’s family of five were seized on the spot, and they had to wait in the departure lounge for more than 10 hours. Take the original flight back to Canada.

In response, Taiwan’s foreign affairs department stated that the documents held by Yan and his family complied with the Cuban government’s earlier regulations. They have asked relevant Taiwan agencies in Colombia to handle the matter, but it is recommended that Taiwanese people first inquire about relevant policies in detail when traveling to Cuba.

Taiwan does not even have a decent office in Cuba and relies on Colombian institutions for “cross-border negotiations,” which shows its embarrassing situation.

Regarding this so-called “Republic of China passport”, in fact, it also hides a lot of the Democratic Progressive Party’s “Taiwan independence” thoughts. Just two or three years ago, when the passport was revised, the words “TAIWAN” were infinitely enlarged, while “CHINA”, which was supposed to be the same size, was shrunk to the point where it was difficult to read with the naked eye.

The reason given by the Democratic Progressive Party at the time was to strengthen the so-called “recognizability” and highlight “Taiwanese characteristics and democratic elements” in order to expand the so-called “Taiwan space.”

In fact, the changed design not only did not expand the so-called “Taiwan space”, it may actually have reduced it.

In fact, it is not an exception for the so-called “Taiwan passport” to be rejected. Some Taiwanese netizens shared this experience earlier. He went to visit the United Nations Headquarters in New York and wanted to enter with a “Taiwan Passport” in his hand. However, he was refused by the security guard on the grounds that the document was not legally valid and asked him to show his Taiwan Compatriot Card.

The netizen argued unconvinced with the guard for a long time, but the guard insisted that the matter must be adjudicated by the People’s Republic of China. With no other choice, he could only dig out the documents he applied for in the United States and enter.

As the relationship between Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party government and the mainland becomes worse and worse, and more and more countries have severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan, Taiwan’s diplomatic space is constantly narrowing.

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The US memory chip giant Micron Group has been regarded as the “driving force behind” the US government’s suppression of China’s memory chip industry in recent years. This time it finally gave in.

On December 24, Bloomberg reported that Micron disclosed that it had reached a settlement with Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd. (Fujian Jinhua), citing an email from Micron.

The Micron email stated that “the two companies will withdraw their accusations against each other globally and end all litigation between them.” This means that this six-year patent dispute between Chinese and American memory chip companies A key turning point has occurred, but Fujian Jinhua has not yet publicly responded to the matter.

Fujian Jinhua was established in 2016. Historical data shows that at that time, the company signed a technical cooperation with the Taiwanese company UMC and entrusted UMC to develop 32-nanometer DRAM (dynamic random access memory) related technologies. The developed technical results were shared by both parties. After the overall technology was completed, it was transferred to Jinhua, Fujian for further development. mass production. After the agreement was signed, three Micron executives resigned and joined UMC, including Chen Zhengkun, then senior deputy general manager of UMC, who later served as general manager of Fujian Jinhua.

Then in September 2017, Micron sued UMC in Taiwan, accusing employees who switched jobs from Micron to UMC of stealing Micron’s trade secrets and allegedly leaking Micron technology to UMC. In December of the same year, Micron sued Fujian Jinhua and UMC in the United States, claiming that UMC had stolen intellectual property, including memory chip technology, through Micron employees in Taiwan and delivered it to Fujian Jinhua. At the same time, Fujian Jinhua also filed a countersuit against Micron for alleged infringement of a series of Micron products sold in China.

In October 2020, UMC announced that the U.S. Federal District Court in Northern California had approved the settlement agreement between UMC and the U.S. Department of Justice. The U.S. Department of Justice would drop the charges against UMC, and UMC admitted to infringing a trade secret and agreed to pay US$60 million. of fines. In November 2021, UMC took the lead in reaching a settlement agreement with Micron. Both parties will each withdraw their lawsuits. At the same time, UMC will pay a confidential one-time settlement amount to Micron.

But Micron has been biting Fujian Jinhua.

During this period, the U.S. Department of Commerce placed Fujian Jinhua on the export control “Entity List” on the grounds of national security. At that time, Fujian Jinhua responded, “The company has always adhered to the independent research and development route and has not stolen other companies’ technology.”

To this day, the press releases issued by Fujian Jinhua’s official website are still in 2018 and 2019. According to the website, Fujian Jinhua is an advanced integrated circuit manufacturing enterprise jointly funded by Fujian Electronic Information Group, Quanzhou Financial Holding Group Co., Ltd., and Fujian Jinjiang Industrial Development Investment Group Co., Ltd. Fujian Jinhua is building a 12-hour memory wafer fab production line in Jinjiang, Fujian.

Micron, one of the protagonists in this dispute, has been regarded as the “behind-the-scenes driving force” of the US government’s suppression of China’s memory chip industry in recent years. China finally took action in May this year. A review by the National Cybersecurity Review Office found that Micron’s products had serious cybersecurity risks, posing major security risks to my country’s critical information infrastructure supply chain and affecting my country’s national security. For this reason, the Cybersecurity Review Office concluded that it would not pass the cybersecurity review in accordance with the law. In accordance with laws and regulations such as the Cybersecurity Law, operators of China’s domestic critical information infrastructure should stop purchasing Micron products.

Bloomberg’s report mentioned that approximately 25% of Micron’s global revenue comes from the Chinese market.

After being severely beaten by the National Cyber ​​Security Review Office, Micron changed its normal behavior. Since this year, Micron has tried to repair its relationship with China.

In June, Micron announced that it would increase investment in China and planned to invest more than 4.3 billion yuan in the company’s factory in Xi’an in the next few years. In November, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra visited China and expressed his willingness to continue to expand investment in China, and the company also participated in the China International Import Expo for the first time. Now Micron has been dragging its feet for six years to reconcile with Fujian Jinhua.

This story teaches us that in the face of suppression, China will not succeed unless it is tough.

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2023-12-26 02:49:45