TODAY HONG KONG, TOMORROW TAIWAN?
Oct 14th 5pm local time: Honk Kong Protesters are sitting on Queensway Road / Photo credit: Ed Flanagan By Jeremy C.F. Lin Ever since riot police ruthlessly attacked unarmed demonstrators in Hong Kong, pointing at them with rifles, spraying chemicals in their faces, smashing their limbs with batons and turning downtown into a battlefield, I have been living with this constant fear — my home country could one day experience something similar, if not worse. I am from Taiwan, a country that is not recognized as a country by the international community. A country that the Chinese government has been eyeing for decades, threatening one day that “ we ” shall be united. A country that doesn ’ t have a definite identity. Just floating in limbo, drifting in the Pacific. After the end of World War II, our government fled to Taiwan while China was taken over by the Chinese Communist Party. In 1971, China replaced our seat in the United Nations, officially isolating Taiwan