Hong Kongers need help, not pity
By Chin Heng-wei 金恒煒
Taiwan can help, and Taiwan is helping. Oh, really? How about the Hong Kongers terrorized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? Why are Taiwanese not helping them, when Taiwanese should be saving them? Could it be that all Taiwan can do is gift masks during a pandemic?
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) talks of the plight of the three young Hong Kong campaigners who have been imprisoned Joshua Wong (黃之鋒), Agnes Chow (周庭) and Ivan Lam (林朗彥) but she just repeats flaccid calls to action, such as: “We either defend democracy, or we surrender to the threat of authoritarianism.”
A black day in Hong Kong s history
The devious arrest of 15 peaceful democracy activists will not deter the young from fighting for their rights Gianni Criveller Updated: April 23, 2020 03:37 AM GMT
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Two veterans of Hong Kong s democracy struggle, Martin Lee (left) and Cardinal Joseph Zen, attend a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2019. (Photo supplied)
The arrest of the 15 most visible leaders of the democratic and peaceful opposition on April 18 marked another black day in the history of Hong Kong. It was a dramatic escalation of events in the former British colony.
The most well known among those arrested is 81-year-old lawyer Martin Lee, the popular father of democracy in Hong Kong. Lee, founder of the Democratic Party, participated in the drafting of the Hong Kong constitutional charter. I remember him addressing the people of Hong Kong from the balcony of parliament asking for democracy on the fateful night o
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