Good guys must not lose in Taiwan

We hope no news is good news in Taiwan. Last Monday, riot police had to use water cannons to force out hundreds of demonstrators who had stormed the government’s main headquarters, the Executive Yuan and seat of the cabinet. Premier Jiang Yi-huah got slightly hurt when the demonstrators stormed the government’s HQ.

That act of the demonstrators was the peak of their protest action against a business and services trade agreement that Taiwan (which is formally still the ROC or the Republic of China) had signed with the People’s Republic. The anti-Beijing trade-pact and the plainly anti-Beijing demonstrators had been occupying the Legislative Yuan (the Taiwan parliament) for almost a week when they decided to be bolder and entered Premier Jiang’s building.