Published December 04, 2015
Prominent exiled Chinese dissident Wu'er Kaixi has announced his candidacy for a seat in Taiwan's parliament.
The former co-leader of 1989 student-led pro-democracy protests centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square said Friday he was running on a platform of social justice, environmental protection and a strengthened Taiwanese identity.
Wu'er says he would take a tougher approach to Taiwan's relations with mainland China, from which the island split in 1949 and remains locked in a tense rivalry for international recognition.
Wu'er fled China after the military crushed the 1989 protests, killing hundreds, and has been unable to return home since. He married a Taiwanese woman and settled on the island in 1996.
China's authoritarian communist government says its crackdown on the protests was necessary to maintain order and contain unrest.
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