China Hands 9-Year Prison Sentence to Taiwan Activist for ’Separatism’

>This was the first time China jailed a Taiwanese person on a charge of trying to break up its territory, according to the council, a government department in Taipei that handles cross-strait relations. In recent years, Chinese prosecutors have leveled the charge against Uyghurs, a minority group in the restive far western region of Xinjiang.

Not exactly an encouraging sign