Taiwan Plan to Join China-Led Bank Causes Scuffle in Legislature
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Taiwan lawmakers engaged in a scuffle inside the island’s legislature Tuesday over the government’s plan to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Legislators from the Taiwan Solidarity Union tried to block a podium as ruling Kuomintang party lawmakers pulled them off and carried them away, footage on cable television channels showed. A TSU lawmaker told Premier Mao Chi-kuo, who was due to speak at the session, the government was “selling out Taiwan,” the Taipei-based Liberty Times reported.