Taiwan president shows solidarity with HK with bookstore visit

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Tsai Ing-wen reiterates promise to help those who escape to island-nation from financial hub. FMTNews Taiwan

Tsai was the first world leader to pledge specific measures to help people from Hong Kong.

Tsai this week became the first world leader to pledge specific measures to help people from Hong Kong who may leave the former British colony because of new national security legislation that has triggered fresh anti-government protests. “In no time we will finalise the work, doing whatever we can to provide help to Hong Kong friends,” Tsai told the shop’s owner, Lam Wing-kee, who fled to Taiwan last year after he was detained by Chinese agents for selling books critical of the Chinese leadership.

 

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