That would make it easier to peacefully bring Taiwan back under the mainland’s rule
Officials in Beijing hope Mazu will help them in a different way. The United Front Work Department, the Communist Party branch with the job of boosting China’s influence abroad, views the goddess as a tool to win Taiwanese hearts and minds.
In recent years China has taken a hardline approach to Taiwan, buzzing its airspace with military jets and performing drills around the island. But with covid restrictions lifted and a Taiwanese presidential election scheduled for next year, China’s influence operations are increasing. In February the head of the Taiwan Mazu Fellowship, a large network of temples, met Song Tao, the head of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing.
The head of the temple in Meizhou is a member of China’s People’s Political Consultative Conference, a government advisory body. But the cultural exchanges are “not political”, insists Ah Sen, a director at Tai’an Gong. He points to calendars on the wall from different temple associations in Taiwan, some of which favour unification, whereas others back independence. Those who take part in the trips to Meizhou already lean a certain way, so they will not change their minds, he says.
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