hard cheese on the Chinese

TT (opinion piece by Bruce Liao, assistant professor, Dept. Law, NCCU):
Equal rights apply to Chinese, too

No they don't
The PRC threatens, no, it promises, to annex ("unite with") Taiwan, by force if necessary

On April 23, the legislature’s Internal Administration Committee ... preliminarily decided that all Chinese nationals married to Taiwanese should be granted work permits and that ... cap on the inheritance they could receive from their Taiwanese spouses should be scrapped. In addition, the waiting time for Chinese spouses to apply for citizenship is expected to be shortened from eight years to six or four years.

... Even if the amendments are passed, they will not be enough to make treatment of spouses from China equal to treatment of spouses from other countries. ... Policies that discriminate against Chinese spouses and treat them as “second-class immigrants” should not be allowed to continue, yet some legislators and politicians ... put political ideology before human rights

"policies" are not "political ideology", Mr. Associate Professor
and, before i let you continue, it is intellectual weakness to bleat on about "human rights" to promote your cause. GROUPS of people have (human) rights too, not just individuals. That is what politics is all about, balancing the competing rights and interests of different individuals and groups.

Chinese residents and the Taiwanese should stand together through thick and thin. The former have to pay taxes and abide by Taiwanese law like everyone else and should enjoy the same rights.

er ... I pay taxes and have to abide by Taiwanese law too. But i don't see you hurrying to protect my rights. (For crying out loud, i didn't even qualify for NT$3,600 of 消費券 and i've paid almost 20 years of taxes in Taiwan).
Anyone who works in taiwan for as little as one day has to pay taxes on what he/she earns, and woe betide anyone who breaks the law during that one day.

If the government continues to neglect the rights and interests of Chinese spouses and to treat them as second-class immigrants and third-class citizens — inferior both to Taiwanese and spouses from other countries — how will Taiwan be able to praise itself as a free and democratic country founded on human rights?

you're right, but you're more wrong.
a.m.a., Taiwan is threatened with invasion, and its government should protect its citizens from this threat. If that requires curtailing of the rights and liberties of citizens who were born in the country that threatens Taiwan, and who knows, may even vote measures that undermine Taiwan's ability to defend itself, then that is understandable.

Either A.P. Liao is naive, or he is living in the ideal world of academia (or worse)