Asia’s Bastion of Free Speech? Move Aside, Hong Kong, It’s Taiwan Now.

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Asia’s Bastion of Free Speech? Move Aside, Hong Kong, It’s Taiwan Now.

As Beijing tightens its grip, dissidents and rights groups that once flocked to Hong Kong are now choosing Taiwan, which shed martial law for democracy

 

[TheParser]

Yes, ever since General Chiang Kai-shek's son decided that Taiwan (The Republic of China) should move toward democracy, that island has become a model of freedom of the press.

It even surpasses Japan, where, I hear, the press knows its limits and keeps its place.

Of course, China (The People's Republic of China) has no freedom of the press. So people, I hear, do not read the newspapers. Companies are forced to buy copies, which are then quickly thrown into the wastepaper basket.

I suspect that some Hong Kongers wish that the British were still in charge. (Personally, I would rather be ruled well by "outsiders" than badly by "my own kind.")

 

[cnm]

You are seriously deluded if you ever thought Hong Kong was a bastion of free speech.

 

[cnm]

Taiwan : Media independence on hold | Reporters without borders 45

Only 2 places lower than the US. What a bastion of free press it is.