Tibetan youth from around the world have risen up in protest against China’s oppressive “Ethnic Unity Law”!
A Tibetan activist made a powerful statement by self-immolating outside the United Nations in New York to oppose the law.
This Chinese government law is a deliberate conspiracy to wipe out Tibetan language, culture, and Buddhism. The young protesters tore up copies of the law and called on the world to stand up against it.
Taiwan warned the world about COVID. China lied, silenced doctors, and let the virus spread.
This week, for the 10th straight year, the UN’s global health body excluded Taiwan because Beijing demanded it.
Taiwan told the truth. China covered it up. The UN rewards China anyway.
People forget how much Taiwan has sacrificed for its freedoms.
I was recently in the ballroom where the end of martial law was declared (Grand Hotel, Taipei). After, I visited the Nylon Cheng (鄭南榕) memorial museum, where his daughter told me about his tragic self-immolation.
Cheng fought and died for freedom of speech. His publication, Freedom Era Weekly, was the subject of constant state harassment. After he published a proposal for a constitution for the Republic of Taiwan, he was charged with sedition, and ordered to appear before court.
He wouldn't go.
He stayed in his locked office for 71 days. Eventually, as the police prepared to storm the building to arrest him, he sent his family to shelter from the coming blaze, and set his own office on fire.
Today, the charred remains of that office are preserved as they were. Even the burned boots he was wearing when he died. His daughter (鄭竹梅) now shows people around the museum. She showed me the last letter she wrote him. She was too young to understand what was happening. Showing it to me, 37 years later, she was still visibly upset.
Cheng's story of self-sacrifice was not unique. 30 years since their first presidential elections, some foreign onlookers doubt the power of these raw memories in the collective Taiwanese consciousness, and the yearning they represent.
Some even speculate about the commitment of Taiwan to its democracy. I don't understand this. Everywhere I go, I encounter the spirit that gave rise to a figure like Nylon Cheng, together with a profound understanding of the price of democracy that, frankly, puts many in my own country to shame.
Remembering him today, and on April 7th, now an official day to honour his memory. Do visit the museum if you're in Taipei. https://t.co/0fFjJpFxtn
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New report + today’s briefing to the Canadian Parliament by China Studies Fellow @CherylYuuu: Jamestown mapped how 2,000+ CCP linked united front organizations are operating in democratic states, shaping domestic politics and subverting Western democracies.
Read the full report and watch the full briefing through the links below!
Report: https://t.co/HhzihriUYs
Parliamentary Briefing: https://t.co/DXU8KjqfzD
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I am appalled at the politically motivated prosecution and sentence handed down to Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong, following his National Security trial. This is an affront to freedom of speech and to China’s commitments made under the Sino-British Joint Declaration.
I join the UK Government in calling on Hong Kong’s authorities to release Jimmy Lai and end his ordeal. China must know that the world is watching - we stand with Jimmy Lai and the people of Hong Kong.