Taiwan says local business leader has been missing in mainland China for 14 months
- Tsai Jin-shu, the chairman of the Federation of Southern Taiwan Cross-Strait Associations, disappeared while on a trip to Fujian province in July last year, Straits Exchange Foundation says
- Statement comes days after Beijing admits to detaining a Taiwanese citizen accused of engaging in activities that ‘endanger state security’
Just days after Beijing said it had detained a Taiwanese man who was reported missing by his family last month, authorities in Taipei said on Friday they are still trying to trace a business leader from the self-ruled island who disappeared while on a trip to southeast China more than a year ago.
Tsai Jin-shu, chairman of the Federation of Southern Taiwan Cross-Strait Associations, travelled to Xiamen in Fujian province on July 21, 2018 to attend a food fair and has not been seen since, the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) said.
“The SEF sent a letter to the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait [Arats] to seek Tsai’s whereabouts immediately after his family approached the SEF in late August [2018],” it said in a statement.
The SEF is a semi-official organisation that liaises with the mainland-based Arats on issues across the Taiwan Strait. It said it had sought help through various channels on the mainland to locate the 60-year-old Tsai, but “there is no result so far”.