"Embrace the CCP. Taiwan will become the next Hong Kong."
At a June 8 Asia Society event in New York, a mainland Chinese dissident confronted KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun live during Q&A — asking why, after her April Beijing trip to see Xi Jinping, she told Taiwanese that drones would "deliver bubble tea, not missiles."
The questioner didn't stop there: he pressed her on what Xi reportedly told Trump about a potential Taiwan invasion, then answered his own second question unprompted — "I'm from mainland China, so I know: Xi wants Taiwan because dictatorships cannot allow democracies to exist next to them."
Then came the line that stopped the room: "Embrace the CCP. Taiwan will become the next Hong Kong."