China dissident Wu’er Kaixi running for Taiwan’s parliament

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Source: Washington Post

Prominent exiled Chinese dissident Wu’er Kaixi has announced his candidacy for a seat in Taiwan’s parliament.

The former co-leader of 1989 student-led pro-democracy protests centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square said Friday he was running on a platform of social justice, environmental protection and a strengthened Taiwanese identity.

Wu’er says he would take a tougher approach to Taiwan’s relations with mainland China, from which the island split in 1949 and remains locked in a tense rivalry for international recognition.

Wu’er fled China after the military crushed the 1989 protests, killing hundreds, and has been unable to return home since. He married a Taiwanese woman and settled on the island in 1996.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-dissident-wuer-kaixi-running-for-taiwans-parliament/2015/07/24/b217b02a-31bb-11e5-a879-213078d03dd3_story.html

[davidpdx]

1. Don't fly in any small planes and grow eyes in the back of your head

In other words, watch your back man.