It’s hilarious how far you need to dig into headlines from different western sources reporting on this to find out the context and what the bill actually was. Turns out it’s an anti-corruption being passed to impose penalties on government officials who commit perjury in parliament. Meaning this was done in a panicked violent attempt to prevent an anti-corruption law.
Haha. So funny. So quirk. Weird how that’s not widely circulated. Probably has nothing to do with how we want to avoid making Taiwan seem like the corrupt dysfunctional rump state it is because we need to make them look like a beacon of upright liberal rules-based democracy compared to EVIL mainland China. Naw. Nuuh. This is just a funny little event devoid of any context or meaning, haha, epic Taiwan reddit moment!
Imagine, just for a moment, how this would be reported if this happened in Beijing.