Sunday, March 23, 2014

Taiwan's "democracy"

It has been chaotic when about 200 students forced their way into the legislative chamber and occupied the space on Tuesday night last week. The reason is that the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus sent the cross-strait service trade agreement to a plenary session without it being screened. They are some people worried that the trade pact, which would open large parts of Taiwan’s service sector to China and vice versa, would threaten the survival of Taiwan’s small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as the livelihoods of its workers, farmers and businesspeople. In my opinion, there must be pros and cons in this trade pact and I am not very understand whether this pact is good for Taiwan or not, but what made me angry is the procedure of the legislative. I feel sad and disappointed about the democracy of Taiwan and the press. Recently I want to know more about this event, so I read lots of news and watch many videos on the Net. However, I saw a video yesterday about how the press garbled what really happened on the spot. What was reported was totally different from the truth. And at the end I really don’t know which news can be believed.

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