00:00Not the smoothest of exits for Xiaowei, the Chinese influencer who was ordered to leave Taiwan by the end of March
00:07but failed to do so.
00:08She's now been forcibly deported by Taipei and what we know is that she has left from here,
00:15Taoyuan International Airport, on a flight to China.
00:18Xiaowei is one of three Chinese nationals Taipei has recently ordered to leave for posting videos online
00:25advocating for military unification of China and Taiwan.
00:29Taipei says such messages breach cross-strait laws and stand to threaten national security and social stability.
00:37Now when Xiaowei was escorted into the airport earlier,
00:40she was seen shouting asking whether she'd done anything wrong.
00:45The Taiwanese authorities want me to be deported. Is that wrong?
00:51These three influencers caused a stir in Taiwan,
00:54with civic groups coming out to both advocate and protest their cause.
00:59All three women are married to Taiwanese citizens.
01:03In Xiaowei's case, there were initially some concerns from Taiwan's interior ministry
01:08that she had connections with China's government,
01:11concerns that flared after Xiaowei did not leave on time.
01:16But Taiwan has now followed through with the law to deport her,
01:20taking a hard line on what it says is needed to protect the free way of life here.
01:26Scott Huang and Joy Sun at Taoyuan International Airport for Taiwan Plus.
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