Taipei Times
Date: Aug 24, 2016
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Scuffles broke out yesterday as two Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) members who attempted to
Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) Department of Youth Affairs director Chang Choa-lin, center, and other TSU supporters scuffle with security personnel yesterday near the Regent Taipei hotel, where the Taipei-Shanghai Forum is being held. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
interrupt the Taipei-Shanghai Forum at the Regent Taipei hotel were detained in the hotel by police before being taken away.
About 30 TSU members rallied in front of the hotel before the forum started, demanding that the Chinese delegation led by Shanghai Municipal Committee United Front Work Department Director Sha Hailin (沙海林) leave Taiwan.
Saying that all official ties have been suspended by Beijing after the Democratic Progressive Party became the ruling party in May, former TSU legislator Chou Ni-an (周倪安) said that Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) could have reached surreptitious agreements with China to get the delegation to agree to participate in the forum.
“Acknowledge ‘one China’ if you want to carry out exchanges. This is what China said. Did you [Ko] acknowledge it? What did you say on Taipei residents’ behalf?” Chou said.
The protesters tore up two large photographs of Ko and Sha, and set them on fire. [FULL STORY]
