Video: Chinese envoy Zhang Mingqing jostled in Tainan

For those of you that haven't seen it yet, here's a video of Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Vice Chairman Zhang Mingqing (張銘清) getting roughed up by a group of Taiwanese protestors led by Tainan City Councilor Wang Ding-yu (王定宇) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) while Zhang was on a visit to the city's Confucius Temple. The second-highest ranking negotiator on Taiwanese issues and dean of Xiamen University's Journalism School was pushed to the ground while protestors shouted "Taiwan does not belong to China!" Zhang has since cut short his trip and returned to Beijing, presumably for a health check.

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