Organizers are inviting presidential contenders
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/06/15
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
NPP legislator Huang Kuo-chang (left) with his colleague Hsu Yung-ming (By Central News Agency)
Activists are worried that as China ramps up its efforts to isolate Taiwan, pro-unification media would follow its guidance and spread more propaganda and even disinformation to divide Taiwan and undermine the public’s will to defend its hard-earned democracy, the Central News Agency reported Saturday (June 15).
At the origin of the protest plans are statements by YouTube celebrity Holger Chen (陳之漢) criticizing some Taiwanese media for failing to supply sufficient news about the Hong Kong protests against plans for an extradition law. He asked New Power Party legislator Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) to take concrete action, which resulted in the booking of Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei for the afternoon of June 23.
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