Tens of thousands of pro-China posts and spams have inundated the Facebook account of Taiwan president-elect Tsai lng-wen despite the existing ban of the social network on the mainland.

As of Thursday afternoon, more than 42,000 people had posted comments on the President-elect's Facebook page calling on her to bring the island under China's jurisdiction and control.

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Most of the pro-China posts were written in simple Chinese characters while the Taiwanese and Hong Kong posts were in traditional characters.

Embrace the motherland

Many of the posts included a refrain from a Communist Party song  about embracing the motherland and how shameful it is to hurt China.

Pro-Taiwanese independence netizens countered the Chinese tirades by sarcastically congratulating mainlanders for being able to evade  government internet censors and post their barbs against President-elect Tsai on Facebook.

The Taiwanese commenters pointed out to the mainlanders that they don't have the freedom that the people in Taiwan enjoy.

Freedom of speech

Members of the pro-independence Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) say the newly-elected President wasn't at all angry about the deluge of Pro-China posts on her Facebook page, adding that the Chinese internet users were just 'exercising their freedom of speech.'

"As long as the comments are not extreme and below the belt, we have only respect for them,' one DPP member said.

President-elect Tsai herself commended the Chinese netizens for being able to express their sentiments freely despite the existing ban on Facebook in China.

"The greatness of this country is that everyone has their own rights," the president-elect posted.

Taiwan province governor

Many of the posts were written in an attempt to annoy Tsai following the recently concluded Taiwan elections.

Some posts referred to Tsai as the "Taiwan province governor", while the other posts reiterated that Taiwan is part of China and that should be followed and respected.

China's Taiwan Affairs Office, which leads cross-strait negotiations for the mainland, did not respond to a request for comment.

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