Kaohsiung City Councilors protest Han’s meeting with Communist leaders by presenting him with imperial dragon robe
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/04/01
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Screenshot from live video of Kaohsiung City Council session.
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — To protest Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu’s (韓國瑜) meeting with Communist officials during his trip to China last week, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) city council members held up protest placards and presented Han with an imperial Qing Dynasty emperor’s robe, which he rejected.
During a meeting of the Kaohsiung City Council this morning, the DPP launched a protest before he took the podium. DPP council members shouted slogans and held up placards which read: “Hong Kong today, Taiwan tomorrow,” Support the Kuomintang, and Taiwan will become Hong Kong,” and “1992 Consensus gas chamber.” DPP council members then stood in front of Han and shouted “Reject one country, two systems, economic revitalization starts from the ground up,” reported Now News.
DPP councilman Lin Chih Hung (林智鴻) criticized Han’s meeting with top liaison officers of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for Hong Kong and Macau behind closed doors as a “black-box operation.” Lin said no one knows who Han met with in private and what he talked about.
Lin then asked, “Were you helping the China Liaison Office? Are you running for president?” reported China Times. Lin said that if Han wants to run for president, he should be a generous man. [FULL STORY]
