Taiwanese Comedian Huang Yi-hao, Who Satirized Xi Jinping, Attacked; Who Was Behind the $18,000 Contract?
Taiwan prosecutors indict five suspects in staged traffic-accident attack; Beijing dismisses allegations as “political smears for electoral purposes”
A war of words over the attack on a Taiwanese comedian who has satirized Chinese President Xi Jinping is intensifying across the Taiwan Strait. After Taiwan’s government called the incident an instance of China’s “transnational repression,” Beijing strongly objected, calling the accusation a...