OUTRAGE CONTINUES from Taiwanese activists regarding the actions taken by police against demonstrations against the Tsai administration’s planned labor laws on December 23rd. Police actions were undertaken by the Zhongzheng First Police Precinct which is frequently at odds with activists over demonstrations that take place in the Shandao Temple area where the Legislative Yuan and Executive Yuan are, and orders are reported to have came directly from Taipei mayor Ko Wen-Je.
Unsurprisingly, then, demonstrations worsen the relation between Ko and Taiwanese activists. Ko was voted into power in 2014 with the support of many Sunflower Movement activists, who felt that as a political independent, Ko might be above the political interests of both the pan-Blue and pan-Green camp. As such, early in his administration, Ko ordered Taipei police to take a light hand to political demonstrators.
However, this has changed in the years since 2014. Ko is now seen as having gone back on a number of his campaign promises, evidencing surprisingly conservative social views regarding nostalgia for the authoritarian period or an unwillingness to remove symbols of past authoritarianism, attempts to build ties with China in a manner circumventing national policy, and even allowed actions of mob violence against young pro-independence demonstrators at NTU to take place with little police action.
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https://newbloommag.net/2017/12/25/labor-police-actions-anger/
Unsurprisingly, then, demonstrations worsen the relation between Ko and Taiwanese activists. Ko was voted into power in 2014 with the support of many Sunflower Movement activists, who felt that as a political independent, Ko might be above the political interests of both the pan-Blue and pan-Green camp. As such, early in his administration, Ko ordered Taipei police to take a light hand to political demonstrators.
However, this has changed in the years since 2014. Ko is now seen as having gone back on a number of his campaign promises, evidencing surprisingly conservative social views regarding nostalgia for the authoritarian period or an unwillingness to remove symbols of past authoritarianism, attempts to build ties with China in a manner circumventing national policy, and even allowed actions of mob violence against young pro-independence demonstrators at NTU to take place with little police action.
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https://newbloommag.net/2017/12/25/labor-police-actions-anger/
