On October 5, Zhao Yanqing, director of the Taiwan representative office in Munich, said that the Chinese consulate-general in Munich had offered to fund replacing a lecture by Taiwanese writer Yang Shuangzi, but the venue refused; the on-site interpreter at the lecture also rendered "a huge threat from China" as "a very big neighbor," and Chunshan Publishing said that subsequent events would be interpreted by Lin Yu-li instead.
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