Hundreds of thousands of government and military personnel screened in programme dismissed by critics as ‘loyalty pledges’.

Taiwan, suspicoius of spying, is enforcing stricter oversight of Chinese immigrants. Some of them are being deported.

A senior Chinese official has given closed-door instructions to state security units to ‘implement’ the crackdown in countries ... to ‘severely punish Taiwan independence diehards ...

Public commemorations now take place in overseas cities including Taipei where senior Taiwan government leaders sometimes use the anniversary to criticise China and urge it to face up to what it did.