Taiwanese K Pop singer Chou Tzu-Yu, who is part of South Korean-based nine-member girl band TWICE, on Saturday tendered official apology on Youtube for waving the Taiwanese flag in a recent broadcast.

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"There is only one China," she said. "The cross-straits territories are one in the same, and I am proud to consider myself thoroughly Chinese. As a Chinese person who performs abroad, [I say] to my employers and internet friends on both sides of the straits-I'm terribly sorry for the harm I have caused, and I feel ashamed."

The video has expectedly gone viral across China, garnering over 2 million hits in just a few hours. The video has promoted many in the online Chinese community to label her as 'pro Taiwanese.' The issue was a major flashpoint during Taiwan's presidential election campaign.           

Chou Tzu-Yu's abrupt apology, however, may go a long way to assuage Chinese people and the Chinese government in particular.

Political analysts are of the view that Chou Tzu-Yu's abrupt apology will have an impact on Taiwanese voters -- especially considering that it came just in nick of time before Taiwanese voters casted their votes to elect a new president.

Many political thinkers believe that Chou Tzu-Yu's flag controversy and her subsequent apology may have prompted some Taiwanese voters to tilt towards the Democratic Progressive Party's Tsai Ing-wen and her party's legislative candidates.

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