By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporterThe US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is not planning to change the way it operates, despite Beijing’s sanctions against US non-governmental organizations working in Hong Kong, NED president Carl Gershman told the Taipei Times in an interview in Taipei on Wednesday, adding that it hopes to work more closely with Taiwan to defend democracy. “We’re not gonna change what we do,” Gershman said when asked if the sanctions would influence the organization’s activities. That’s something between people in Hong Kong and China. Gershman expressed the hope that there could be some temporary settlement of the confrontation in Hong Kong. Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) in 2012 tasked the Chinese Communist Party with writing a secret communique, Document No.
