Taiwan's government said Friday it would provide assistance to Hong Kongers seeking sanctuary after local media reported dozens of activists involved in an unprecedented storming of the city's parliament had fled to the island.
The pledge risks infuriating
Beijing but comes as Taiwan gears up for a presidential
election where a dominating issue will be relations with the mainland -- which sees the self-ruled island as its own territory and has vowed to seize it.
Over 30 Hong Kong
protesters who fear prosecution for their involvement in the ransacking of the finance hub's legislature on July 1 have arrived in Taiwan to seek shelter, Taiwan's
Apple Daily said, citing unnamed sources.