Faith, hope and ancestry: how Beijing is trying to win over Taiwan’s next generation
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Xintian village is symbolic of efforts to reinforce Taiwanese people’s historical and religious links to the mainland.

As the closest mainland Chinese province to Taiwan, Fujian is a key site for Beijing’s messaging towards the island. In the second of a two-part series, Xinlu Liang looks at how the ancestral home village of William Lai Ching-te has become a focus for efforts to promote closer ties based on kinship and religion. The village of Xintian in Fujian province is usually a quiet rural backwater but that changed in November when popular Taiwanese YouTuber and bodybuilder Holger Chen Chih-han descended…

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