Published: April 27th, 2023,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

News of two arrests is troubling Taiwan. For several months now, a Taiwanese publisher and an activist have been in Chinese custody. Only now have details of the cases become public, which superficially have nothing to do with each other. In fact, they are an expression of the Chinese judiciary’s self-image of being able to dispense justice to Taiwanese citizens as it does to its own citizens.