The House speaker highlighted the stark contrast of Taiwan’s democratic reforms with the Chinese Communist Party’s intolerance for dissent.
carries a collection of documents, oral histories and archives related to the White Terror — a nearly four-decade period of martial law in Taiwan that included suppression, violence and imprisonment by the Nationalist Party government against those perceived to be against its rule.in which the KMT killed up to 28,000 Taiwanese civilians following an attempted uprising led by those angered by exclusion from politics and business under Chinese Nationalist rule.
Pelosi’s tour involved a talk by Chen Chu, chairwoman of Taiwan’s Human Rights Council and president of the Control Yuan, the supervisory and auditory branch of government. She was a prominent political prisoner held and tried in the Jing-Mei detention center during a 1979 crackdown on democracy activists.
The museum visit was also an apparent dig at the Chinese Communist Party’s extensive efforts to suppress memories of dark periods in its history. It came during the first trip to Taiwan by a U.S.
Global attention to Taiwan’s democracy and its improving human rights record serves to rebut China’s claims that multiparty liberal democracy is not suited to Chinese society, Lee said in an interview. “I hope the United States government, as a leader of global democracy, can take concrete action to support Taiwan to resist China’s military threat,” he said.
Lin Chuan-kai, a scholar at the Department of Sociology at National Sun Yat-sen University who studies Taiwan’s White Terror era, said he was unhappy that the museum’s significance was reduced to a “simple demonstration of values” targeted at China, rather than a chance to further human rights in Taiwan.
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