Up until early last week, the two major parties contesting Taiwan’s presidential election were singing a very similar tune when it came to closer economic ties to mainland China. But in election rallies over the weekend, it became clear that the impact of China’s crackdown in Tibet is reverberating across the Taiwan Strait, possibly destablising the China-friendly opposition frontrunner.

Speakers: Chen Shui-bian, president of Taiwan; Wang Dan, Chinese dissident and student leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest; Professor Shih Cheng-feng of the Indigenous Working Group with Taiwan’s Council for Indigenous Peoples; Ma Ying-jeou, opposition KMT leader.

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