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Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary, Taiwan Urges China to Return Power to the People
News 18Taiwan urged China on Thursday to return power to the people and embark on real political reform rather than avoid facing up to the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing. “We express regret, and call on the other side to implement people-centred political reforms, stop suppressing people’s democratic demands, and return power to the people as soon as possible,” the Taiwanese government said. Calling China’s ruling Communist Party a “one-party dictatorship,” the Taiwanese council said Beijing’s repression at home and in Hong Kong had deviated from universal values and international rules. “They not only deepen the deep-seated social contradictions in their own society, increasing the difficulty of systemic reform, but also create a risk of conflict, affecting regional security and stability.” Taiwan tends to use the Tiananmen Square anniversary to criticise China and urge it to face up to what it did, to Beijing’s repeated annoyance.
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