Taiwan’s first lawmaker with Chinese citizenship has taken office. But this has been a major hurdle for the Taiwan People’s Party’s Li Chen-hsiu, who was sworn in on Tuesday morning. Taiwanese law requires that she give up her Chinese citizenship to serve in the legislature.
But China doesn’t recognize Taiwan as a separate country and doesn’t readily provide the documents needed to renounce citizenship in these cases. Li says she has attempted to renounce her Chinese citizenship, even flying back to her birthplace to apply in person, but was unsuccessful.
