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Victimized
China-based businesspeople to protest
By Su Yung-yao / Staff Reporter
The success of a protest staged by China-based Taiwanese businesspeople earlier
this month in Taipei has prompted the event’s organizer to schedule another
march in Greater Tainan tomorrow.
The event’s organizers also plan to burn a Chinese flag at the march.
Event organizer Shen Po-sheng (沈伯勝) yesterday said he is also a victim of
Chinese oppression, and after his investment in Tianjin failed, he attempted
suicide in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
Shen said tomorrow’s march would charge the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with
being a robber baron that lies and oppresses Taiwanese. The protest would also
warn Taiwanese against seeking their fortune in China because investments in
China are doomed to fail.
The march will publicize accusations that the Tianjin City Government is trying
to con Taiwanese out of their money, he added.
“President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) government is kowtowing to Beijing and hiding
the truth from Taiwanese, which is why I made the decision to take to the
streets in protest against the Ma administration,” Shen said.
According to anonymous sources, with a growing number of victimized Taiwanese
businesspeople taking a stand against Bejing, China has been made aware of the
issue.
Some Taiwanese businesspeople say that they have received calls by people
claiming to be representatives of Chinese authorities asking the businespeople
not to appear publicly or give interviews to facilitate reparations, the source
said, adding that many Taiwanese businesspeople have backed down because of such
calls.
Ting Hsiu-yun (丁秀雲), a Taiwanese businesswoman currently living in New Zealand,
said she had received a call from a person named Tao Sanyuan (陶三院) claiming to
be from the Hubei Public Security Bureau, asking for Ting to provide information
on a case concerning embezzlement of her stocks when Ting invested in the
Chinese stock market.
Whether they would take the case seriously remains to be seen, Ting said.
Translated by Jake Chung, Staff Writer
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