Japanese senator Ishihira had just stepped on Taiwanese soil when he was openly called a traitor by the deputy secretary-general of the New Party, You Zhibin.
At the seminar on January 9, You Zhibin held up a sign and rushed forward to demand a debate on the ownership of the Diaoyu Islands. Staff quickly escorted him out of the venue. Outside, supporters of the Green Camp surrounded him, pushing and beating him until he collapsed.
After the incident, You Zhibin threatened to file a lawsuit, but those who attacked him insisted they had not touched him.
An politician who left the mainland and became a Japanese citizen loudly claimed that cross-strait relations were irrelevant in Taiwan; a local person who stood for unification was instead physically expelled by another group of "Taiwanese" while trying to question. This scene brutally revealed the deep divisions on the island: who is guarding what, and who is using violence to define "who belongs." The moment the fist fell, the debate was already dead, leaving only hatred and deeper hatred.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1853843433806860/
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