Less than 24 hours after Sina Weibo verified that Frank Hsieh, former presidential nominee of Taiwan’s pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), opened an account, the account has already been deleted. Chinese netizens viewed the move as a major setback in re-unification efforts.

This isn’t the first time when netizens in China complained about the limited use of a Chinese passport, but the fact that Taiwan enjoys much less visa restrictions than China does touched the nerves of many. It’s much more about a bit more freedom of traveling.

Chinese netizens to the great grandson of Chiang Kai-shek : “If your great grandfather [Chiang Kai-shek] had worked harder, now we could open Twitter accounts together.”

More telling than waves of anti-Japan protests and discussions of patriotism is a poll started on Sina Weibo. The question is “If your kid is born on Diaoyu Islands, which citizenship would you choose for her?”