A disgraceful act

It is appalling that a scholar from the Chinese mainland was brutally attacked by a mob in Taiwan on Tuesday morning.

The fact that Zhang Mingqing, dean of journalism at Xiamen University, was shoved to his fall while visiting a well-known Confucius temple in the south of the island makes it even more disgraceful.

It simply cannot be part of the ideology of a political party to instigate a handful of extremists to use violence against a scholar. It is especially unbelievable that this could happen to one who was invited by a Taiwan university of the arts on an academic trip.