Flag raisings and burnings in Taiwan as some mark China’s national day amid tension

Tainan/Taiwan Strait: Two small Taiwanese groups at far ends of the debate over relations with Beijing marked China's national day on Saturday with flag raisings and flag burnings, very opposite responses at a time of rising tension over the Taiwan Strait. Oct. 1 marks when Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949, with the defeated Republic of China government fleeing to Taiwan at the end of that year and where it remains to this day, neither recognising the other. China's national day is not officially marked in any way in democratically-governed Taiwan, which celebrates its national day,…