Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioners submitted a letter to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao asking him to investigate allegations of live organ harvesting in China, and to release detained Taiwanese practitioner Chung Ting-pang.
Since news of political infighting within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) erupted this year, many Mainland Chinese tourists in Taiwan have expressed their wish to withdraw from the CCP.
The American Institute in Taiwan, a stand-in for the U.S. Embassy in the country, expressed concern on Oct. 9 over the disruption of a satellite signal of a Chinese-language television network which broadcasts over mainland China and Taiwan.