The Chinese President Tsai Ing-wen urge the leadership in Hong Kong to stop acts of repression as such acts are threatening freedom and the rule of law.
Commenting on the police assault on students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tsai tweeted that police in Taiwan used similar tactics during the years of martial law, which was lifted in 1987.
She wrote: “Our dark past, which we have worked so hard to put behind us, has become the present reality for Hong Kong.”
She says, “I solemnly call on the Hong Kong government to stop these acts of repression before it is too late.”
Tsai called on all democratic nations to “stand with Hong Kong” and express concern over developments there.
She says, “Right now, authoritarianism is eroding freedom and the rule of law in Hong Kong.”
