Recently, a new documentary was screened across Australia about the late Taiwanese Australian professor Chwei-Liang Chiou, who dedicated his life to improving relations between Taiwan and Australia.
At the Brisbane premiere, former federal MP Graham Perrett opened with a line often attributed to the Soviet writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “We know they are lying […] they know we know they are lying […] but they still lie.”
He said the line captured Chiou’s life work. In his classes and writings, Chiou spent considerable time countering false claims about Taiwan’s past and exposing Beijing’s denials of Taiwan’s democratic identity.
