TAIPEI - Taiwan will provide"necessary help" for people from Hong Kong who come to the island, the government said on Thursday after a meeting with a Hong Kong student delegation, amid concerns they may not get proper legal protection in case they flee there.
Taiwan currently has no law on refugees which could be applied to Hong Kong protesters who may seek asylum on the island. Its laws do promise though to help Hong Kong citizens whose safety and liberty are threatened for political reasons. "We know that these students are anxious about many people who may be staying in Taiwan and looking for help and hope that they can get proper or positive assistance," Chiu told reporters.Taiwan will in accordance with existing laws and on humanitarian principles provide"necessary help for individual cases", Chiu said, without specifying which students he had met.
People would inevitably suspect that the DPP"only wants to exchange Hongkongers' sacrifices for Taiwanese people's votes", he added, referring to Taiwan's Jan. 11 presidential and parliamentary elections.
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