During a trip to Taiwan last week, we visited the Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park, a former prison that has been converted into a human rights museum. The site serves as a stark reminder of the country’s remarkable transformation. In just over 40 years, Taiwan has evolved from an authoritarian state — where political opponents of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) dictatorship were imprisoned without due process, tortured, and executed — into what is now a thriving multiparty democracy.
