Taiwan needs a law to counter repression: expert

By Huang Ching-hsuan, Hsu Yung-ching and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source Taiwan should enact legislation to counter Beijing-directed transnational repression, an academic and a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmaker said yesterday, after the US Senate proposed a bill to stop China’s “ethic unity law.”A bipartisan group of US lawmakers on Tuesday introduced the Stop Transnational Repression Act, which would stiffen penalties for foreign agents who threatened people on US soil.US senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis sponsored the bill on the heels of China’s passage of its Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, which authorized Beijing to take actions against critics outside its territory. The US Congress is pictured on Feb.13. Photo: CNA