TAIPEI, Taiwan — The head of Taiwan’s legislature highlighted the Chinese Communist Party’s “horrendous violation of human rights” during a press conference with a U.S. congressional delegation during Holy Week.
You Si-kun, the president of the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan’s unicameral parliamentary body, made the comments on Good Friday during a press conference with members of Congress following a visit by the U.S. delegation to a session of Taiwan’s legislature.House members on the trip, led by Rep.
You said that month that “in addition to echoing Chairman McCaul’s action, we also ask the [Taiwan] executive branch to care about helping these persecuted Chinese religious refugees and to show concrete actions to help them, because democracy, freedom, and human rights are common values in Taiwan and the world!”
The China-Vatican deal’s renewal came just days before the trial resumed against Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen. Zen was being prosecuted by the Chinese government-dominated authorities of the city following his decades of harsh criticism of Beijing’s religious persecution, its extensive human rights abuses, and its growing repression. He is also an outspoken critic of the China-Vatican deal.
McCaul, who is Catholic, told the Washington Examiner on Saturday he thought"Hong Kong was a wake-up call" for Taiwan, pointing to the “Chinese threat to the religious liberty that is here on the island.” He said China was “oppressing religions and committing genocide” and called those actions “offensive culturally to the Taiwanese.”
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