BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -Chinese police on Thursday issued a wanted notice and offered a $35,000 reward for two Taiwanese social media influencers they accused of “separatism”, what Taipei says is an effort by China to bring fear to Taiwanese.

Beijing has accused dozens of people in democratically-governed Taiwan, which it views as Chinese territory, of “separatism”, including elected lawmakers. Chinese law does not apply in Taiwan, which has its own judicial system.

Taiwanese influencers Pa Chiung and Chen Po-yuan – a rapper better known by his stage name Mannam PYC – have long been engaged in publishing and “inciting separatist views”, police in Quanzhou, the city facing Taiwan across the Taiwan Strait, said in a statement.

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