‘Today, Hong Kong; Tomorrow, Taiwan:’ Resistance to China Spreads

The recent solidarity between Taiwan and Hong Kong took root five years ago, when Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement — which derailed a trade agreement with China — in part inspired Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, which failed in its goal of making the territory more democratic. But that has changed as a result of heavy-handed tactics by China’s Communist government, which has sovereignty over Hong Kong but has promised it a high degree of autonomy, and which claims Taiwan as part of its own territory. As a result, candidates to become the Kuomintang presidential nominee have scrambled to denounce the “one country, two systems” framework that China uses to rule Hong Kong and that Xi has also proposed for Taiwan.

Source: asia.nikkei.com