Taipei Times
Date: Aug 24, 2016
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter

Former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) spokesperson Yang Wei-chung (楊偉中) yesterday said that he was denied a Hong Kong visa because he has been appointed a member of the Committee of Illegal Party Asset Settlement.

He had applied for a visa to attend a forum, one to which that several Taiwanese politicians from across party lines had been invited.

“I just received a notice from the forum organizers saying that Beijing abruptly decided to deny me a visa to Hong Kong because I was appointed as a committee member to investigate the KMT,” Yang wrote on Facebook. “What happened to Hong Kong’s self-rule and a high degree of autonomy?”

He had been scheduled to give a speech today at the forum, and he had bought his plane tickets.

“The Chinese Communist Party [CCP] stands firmly with the KMT on the party assets issue,” he said during a radio interview.     [FULL  STORY]