Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/06
By: Elaine Hou, Miao Zong-han and Chung Yu-chen
Taipei, April 6 (CNA) Two of Taiwan’s highest-ranking officials on Saturday expressed
MAC Minister Chen Ming-tong
support for a Chinese professor who was suspended this month after openly criticizing Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平).
Xu Zhangrun (許章潤), a law professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing was suspended after writing several articles criticizing the Chinese government, among them an essay titled “Our Current Fears and Expectations” from last July, denouncing Xi’s cult of personality.
In a series of mobile phone messages, Xu said several Tsinghua University officials ordered him on March 25 to stop all teaching and research and indicated that a university “work team” would investigate him, focusing on the essays he has written since July, according to a report in the New York Times on March 27.
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Chen Ming-tong (陳明通) and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) both voiced their support for Xu on Saturday.
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