Name: The Beijing Government Does Not Like This Man | China Uncensored
Uploaded: 2017-05-23T14:49:45.000Z
Duration: 9 min 57 s
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We're in Taiwan as part of our Pivot to Asia Tour.

Yes, Taiwan may be a difficult place for many of our American viewers to understand.

Taiwan politics has successful third parties.

Two main parties have dominated the Taiwanese political landscape since the 1990s:

The KMT, which favors closer ties with mainland China,

and the DPP, which currently dominates the government and views Taiwan as a separate country.

But the elections in January that put the DPP in power

also saw the success of a third political party:

the NPP, founded by several well-known activists in Taiwan.

Including Taiwanese heavy metal music star and now legislator,

The NPP grew out of the 2014 Sunflower Movement.

When students occupied Taiwan's legislature

for 24 days, to protest a controversial trade deal with mainland China.

to discuss the Chinese Communist Party's encroachment in Taiwan and Hong Kong,

and the future of democracy in mainland China.

what is the goal of the NPP as a political party?

We want to become the second-largest political party in the near future.

The NPP - New Power Party - was founded last January,

kind of growing out of the Sunflower Movement.

And you mentioned the NPP sort of came out of the Sunflower Movement.

A lot of the political parties that came out of that movement

So that has nothing to do with "against China."

Do you think there is a risk to Taiwanese democracy?

dare to criticize the Chinese Communist Party.

China has over Taiwan's many big corporations

How do you feel about the current situation in Hong Kong?

If we look at what is happening in Hong Kong right now,

But also, its rule of law is seriously undermined

from all kinds of pressure from the Beijing government.

you had been denied a visa to travel to Hong Kong.

We support all democratic movements in China.

And we support all the lawyers, and we admired what they did in China.

It requires a lot of courage to stand out against

How do you see the futures of Hong Kong and Taiwan being tied together?

What happened in Hong Kong really gave many Taiwanese a lot to think about.

That is also why we try our very best to support

all the democratic movements happening in Hong Kong right now.

It is also very damaging and dangerous for us -

for Hong Kong and Taiwan to stand together

against the authoritarian regime from the Beijing government.

What do you think the young people in Hong Kong and Taiwan can do together?

When our friends in Hong Kong came to Taiwan

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