在中共駐英國曼徹斯特領事館前—— 倡議英國應該和台灣提升外交關係： At the Chinese Consulate in Manchester: A Call for Britain to Strengthen Official Relations with Taiwan 站在我身後的這棟建築，代表的是一個監控公民、騷擾異見者、要挾受害人家屬的威權政府。 The building behind me represents an authoritarian regime that monitors its own citizens, harasses dissidents, and uses the law and victims’ families as tools of intimidation. 就在這裡，2022年10月，時任曼徹斯特總領事帶人將一名香港民主抗議者強行拖入領事館範圍內毆打。 Right here in October 2022, a Hong Kong pro democracy protester was dragged into the grounds of this consulate and beaten. China’s then Consul General in Manchester was reported to have been involved. 這棟建築的本質不是外交機構，而是中共在英國實施跨國鎮壓的據點。 This building does not represent normal diplomacy. It represents the CCP’s transnational repression on British soil. 台灣比中華人民共和國早成立了整整37年，台灣從未被中共統治過一天。 Taiwan (The Republic of China) was founded 37 years before the People’s Republic of China, and Taiwan has never been ruled by the CCP for a single day. 我在此要求英國政府提升與台灣的正式外交關係，承認台灣的民主現實。 I call on the British government to strengthen its official relations with Taiwan and to recognise the reality of Taiwan’s democracy. 如果曼徹斯特這個領事館的位置有更好的選擇，應該是台灣。 If there is a better future for this site in Manchester, it should be a future with Taiwan.