TAIWAN: Noisy TSU protest greets Chinese forum delegates

Members of the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) yesterday met Chinese delegates to the Taipei-Shanghai City Forum with a noisy protest at Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport), with members jostling police and shouting slogans.

About 30 TSU members, outnumbered and surrounded by police officers, shouted: “Reject unification. Communist bandits get out,” as the delegation, led by Shanghai Municipal Committee United Front Work Department Director Sha Hailin, walked out of the heavily guarded airport shortly before noon.

Police restrained enraged TSU members when a group of demonstrators in support of Sha’s arrival raised a banner printed with greetings, while a TSU member who broke a police cordon and entered the airport concourse to protest the delegation was immediately arrested.

A group of Atayal Aborigines from Hsinchu County gathered at the airport to welcome Sha, singing songs and shouting: “Leader Sha, we love you.”

Escorted by police and bodyguards, Sha waved to his supporters then left the airport immediately.

Former TSU legislator Chou Ni-an said it was unimaginable that Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je would welcome a top United Front official with open arms.

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