Taiwan should give hope to oppressed peoples in East Asia: Lim
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/05/01
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwanese rock star and politician Freddy Lim (林昶佐) wants to
NPP lawmaker Freddy Lim (left). (By Central News Agency)
build a better Taiwan but has “complicated” feelings about United States President Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported Monday.
Lim, 42, first gained prominence as the front man for death metal band Chthonic, but in 2014, he was elected to the Legislative Yuan in Taipei for the New Power Party, the third force in Taiwanese politics.
In the title of the profile in the Washington Post, he is described as a “death metal singer (who) aims to breathe new life into Taiwanese, and Asian, democracy.”
Even though Taiwan has been isolated from the international community, people can still make an effort to make it a better place, Lim told the U.S. publication. [FULL STORY]
