Chinese pro-democracy activists who traveled to Taiwan to observe its presidential election say the reelection of independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen is a cause for hope despite Beijing's quashing of dissent.
Teng Biao, a Chinese legal scholar and human rights activist who now lives in the U.S, speaks during a forum in Taipei, Taiwan on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. Chinese pro-democracy activists who traveled to Taiwan to observe its presidential election said Sunday that the re-election of independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen gave them cause for hope despite Beijing's quashing of dissent on the mainland.
More than a dozen dissidents, many exiled from communist-ruled mainland China, said at a forum in Taipei that Saturday’s landslide win for Tsai and her Democratic Progressive Party has important implications for relations among China, the U.S. and Taiwan, and for Chinese everywhere. Taiwan’s democracy “shows the mainland Chinese a path for the future,” Wang said. “The light is always shining before us.”
Many attending the seminar concurred with Tsai’s stance that Taiwan’s democracy should serve as a model for communist-ruled China and Hong Kong, where months of anti-government protests have reinforced doubts over Beijing’s “one country, two systems” approach for governing the former British colony, let alone Taiwan.
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