secession

The aim would be to try to recruit them for a secession movement, DR said.

Any formal declaration of independence by Taiwan could trigger military action from China, which has a law stating it will resort to "non-peaceful means" to prevent the "secession" of Taiwan.

The legislation criminalises a wider range of dissenting acts which Beijing considers subversion and secession, among other things.

Hong Kong issued two arrest warrants for her alleging "incitement to secession and collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security".

But the Whigs dissolved as a party almost a full decade before Southern secession, and the political imbalance in the country only got worse.