Taiwan opposition leader Lien Chan said today there was room for his host China to introduce political reform.
Moves toward political reform came to a halt after the army crushed the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests for democracy
"The entire speed and scale of political reform on the mainland still have considerable room for improvement," Mr Lien told students at Peking University in a speech televised live nationwide after noting grassroots elections across China. He was given a standing ovation on arrival.
Mr Lien's Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party, lost the Chinese civil war to the Communists and fled to Taiwan in 1949, but it advocates reunification with a democratic China.