Tide turns for Taiwan’s Sunflower students
This anti-democracy, bogus, rumor-based editorial really sucks up to Beijing:
One of the island’s
most influential pundits, Chang said on a TV programme that the former
student leaders should apologise for their past actions.His report has been
widely circulated on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and solicited a
sarcastic opinion piece from the state-run Global Times, saying even the spoiled children of Taiwan have had to hide their identities to find jobs on the mainland.Actually, I think those
young people are being perfectly sensible. You can’t live on ideology
alone. Unlike many young diehard ideologues in Taiwan and Hong Kong,
once they realised their errors, they changed course. That should be
encouraged, not criticised.