Taiwan protesters meet China’s intimidation with defiance
Mass protests erupted in Taiwan Friday in defiance of military and political pressure from Beijing, as China waged a large-scale military exercise aimed at testing its ability to forcibly control the island.
Tens of thousands of Taiwanese poured into the streets of Taipei on Friday chanting slogans against what protesters called anti-democratic, China-backed legislative reforms by the island’s Beijing-leaning political party.
“China has been threatening us for decades,” says Jenny Yeh, a self-described housewife from Taipei. “Of course
