By Hsu Kuo-chen, Su Chin-feng and Hollie Younger / Staff reporters, with staff writer A 33-year-old Chinese man was arrested yesterday at Taichung International Airport after he allegedly assaulted a Japanese media personality following his speech on cross-strait relations in a hotel in Taichung’s Situn District (西屯). After giving a speech in Taichung yesterday morning, Akio Yaita, was attacked by a man wearing black inside a hotel lobby, who police identified as a Chinese man surnamed Liao (廖). Yaita, formerly the Sankei Shimbun Taipei bureau chief, was invited as a keynote speaker at a conference hosted by the Spring Rain Culture and Education Foundation, where he spoke on cross-strait relations and Indo-Pacific security, according to the foundation’s social media page. Japanese media pe