00:00The video splices together past sound bites from Taiwanese Democratic Progressive Party
00:08legislator Wang Shijian. It was posted by a Chinese content creator on Douyin,
00:14the Chinese version of TikTok, earlier this month and already has around 930,000 views.
00:20But at least one Taiwan legislator is urging people not to watch.
00:30United Front work refers to China's efforts to influence Taiwan.
00:35And there is some evidence of this video being associated with this goal.
00:39The original Chinese content creator later posted a separate video writing in the caption
00:44that he's suddenly seeing so many people from Taiwan IP addresses commenting on his videos
00:49and saying that he, quote, welcomes Taiwanese compatriots to come home.
00:53And in a press conference, the Chinese government's Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson
00:57said he was impressed by the creativity of social media users on both sides of the street
01:02and later even appeared to quote the video,
01:05using it to accuse Taiwan's semiconductor industry of scrambling to survive.
01:10But when Taiwan's top national security official was pressed on whether his bureau
01:14would be investigating the video, he appeared to indicate it wasn't that serious a case.
01:19A case.
01:29Okay.
01:30They don't know if they're going to shoot
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