Remembering Lee Teng-hui: Leaders, Taiwanese pay respects at Lee memorial’TAIWAN’S HELMSMAN’: A Taichung woman said Lee Teng-hui lived through martial law and its lifting, and she watched him ‘lead Taiwan to become a democracy’By Lee Hsin-fang / Staff Reporter, with APNational leaders and others yesterday paid their respects to former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝), who died on Thursday aged 97 after bringing full democracy to Taiwan. Among yesterday’s visitors was President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), who wrote in a book of condolences: “You shall forever be watching over democratic Taiwan.”People pay tribute to former president Lee Teng-hui at the Taipei Guest House in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Lin Cheng-kun, Taipei TimesTsai was accompanied by Vice President William Lai (賴清德) and Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌). In response, New Power Party creative media director Jerry Liu (劉仕傑) called Wang “inhumane,” and urged him to apologize to Lee’s family. Taiwanese singer Chang Li-min (張琍敏), an outspoken supporter of ousted Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), made a similar post on Facebook, writing: “Lee Teng-hui is dead, oh yeah.”Additional reporting by Huang Hsin-po

Source: Taipei Times August 01, 2020 15:56 UTC