Lawmakers in the Taiwan legislature fight over a contentious trade pact with China late last year. / Wally Santana/AP

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan’s parliamentary speaker has said he will consider opening the legislative floor to Chinese tourists so they can learn from the island’s freewheeling democracy. Lawmaker Wu Yu-sheng of the ruling Nationalist Party proposed late Friday that the legislature open its floor to the visiting Chinese because “out of all places in Taiwan, the legislature is where democracy is most thoroughly implemented.”