“One Country, Two Systems”: the View from Taiwan

... community separate from the Chinese, there is no denying the fact that the Taiwanese have a special political culture, in which the idea of the inviolability of democratic rights and freedoms is very strong. That’s why the attitude of the majority of Taiwanese to the Hong Kong residents involved in the Occupy Central movement could confidently be described as sympathetic. In my view, the attitude of any given group of people to particular events directly depends on their mentality and the characteristics of their ...