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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2016/04/28/outcry-over-wen-jiabao-statue-in-taiwan/" target="_blank">Outcry over Wen Jiabao statue in Taiwan</a></h3>
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<p>Source: SCMP (4/28/16)<br />
<a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1939407/gone-wind-statue-hailing-former-premier-mainland-china">Gone with the wind: statue hailing former premier of mainland China as a Taiwanese hero is taken down following outcry</a><br />
Firm erects statue of mainland’s ex-premier for his ‘love’ of island, then removes it following public anger<br />
By Lawrence Chung</p>
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<div class="swiper-slide-overlay">The mainland’s former premier Wen Jiabao was hailed a Taiwanese hero – albeit briefly – yesterday when a local advertising company executive unveiled his statue at an entombment park in the island’s northern port city of Keelung.</div>
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<p class="v2-processed">Visitors to the park were taken aback when they saw that a bronze statue of Wen stood in the park with his right hand holding a pair of shoes, Taiwanese media reported.</p>
<p class="v2-processed">“Wen opened tourism and exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait during his tenure, creating many job opportunities for Taiwanese people,” Lin Kun-ming, the executive, was quoted as saying by SET cable television.</p>
<p class="v2-processed">“We made him a hero because he loved Taiwan,” he said. The Taiwanese public should be grateful to him for his contributions to the island, he added.</p>
<p class="v2-processed">The park’s president Chen Chen-feng told Taiwan’s Central News Agency the island was a free society and the public should view the statue with an open mind.</p>
<p class="v2-processed image no-float"><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image init-colorbox-processed-processed cboxElement" href="http://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/images/methode/2016/04/27/fe544052-0c85-11e6-b8ab-30cd2474e1b0_image_hires.jpg" rel="gallery-f1125dec-0c68-11e6-b8ab-30cd2474e1b0"><span class="image-caption-container image-caption-container-none"><img style="max-width:100%" class="caption lazyload-processed magic-processed loaded" title="The mainland’s former premier Wen Jiabao, right, meets with Fredrick Chien, chief advisor of Taiwan’s Cross-Straits Common Market Foundation, in Boao, Hainan province in 2009. Photo: Xinhua" src="http://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/486w/public/images/methode/2016/04/27/fe544052-0c85-11e6-b8ab-30cd2474e1b0_486x.jpg?itok=ANeuPCVJ" alt="" data-original="http://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/486w/public/images/methode/2016/04/27/fe544052-0c85-11e6-b8ab-30cd2474e1b0_486x.jpg?itok=ANeuPCVJ" data-ignore="true" /></span></a></p>
<div class="image-caption-text">But not all agreed with Chen.</div>
<p class="v2-processed">Taiwanese politicians and some netizens said erecting a statue of Wen and making him a Taiwanese hero made no sense.</p>
<p class="v2-processed">“Though the park is a private establishment, and anyone in Taiwan has the freedom to advocate what they believe, I personally think this is improper. Public opinion is divided over whether Wen is a Taiwanese hero,” said Tsai Shih-ying, a legislator of the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).</p>
<p class="v2-processed">Keelung mayor Lin Yu-chang of the DPP also demanded the advertisement company take down the statue.</p>
<p class="v2-processed">“I think it is absurd and carries a negative perception among the public,” he was quoted as saying by SET TV.</p>
<p class="v2-processed">Lin said that they agreed to remove the statue after his company took a unanimous decision.</p>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on April 28, 2016 </div>
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