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Taiwan charges five men over plot to run over comedian for making Xi Jinping jokes
Person named ‘K’ from China paid five defendants to injure Huang Yi-hao badly enough to require hospitalisation, New Taipei prosecutors sayTaiwanese prosecutors have charged five men over a plot to ram a car into a comedian who made fun of the Chinese Communist party and Xi Jinping.Taiwan has repeatedly accused China of transnational repression to silence critics on the self-governed island, which Beijing claims as its territory and has vowed to take by force if necessary. Continue reading...
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