Wuer Kaixi

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Wúěr Kāixī (吾爾開希 Uyghur: Uerkesh Daolet) (1968-) is a famous Uyghur student leader in the Tiananmen protests of 1989. He achieved prominence while studying at Beijing Normal University as a hunger striker who rebuked Premier of the People's Republic of China Li Peng on national television.

He fled to France and then studied at Harvard University in the United States. Afterward he emigrated to Taiwan, where he has started a family and continued to host radio programs. He also appear frequently on television programmes as a political commentator, who supports the idea of "One China Under Democracy" (i.e. reunification of mainland China and Taiwan under a democratic political system). He reportedly expressed his hope of taking part in Legislative Yuan elections as a representative of Kuomintang, which eventually did not nominate him as one of the party's candidates.

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Witnessing Tiananmen: Student talks fail – BBC interview
Let's not forget what China is – International Herald Tribune article