My comment:
(a) I am in favor nuclear power plants. I thought that president Chen Shui-bian, who I respect, caved in to naysayers (who concentrate in his party, DPP) when early in his first term he abruptly suspended the construction of the power plant. But Mr Chen was swiftly rebuked by both KMT-led legislature and supreme court there.
(b) Having lived in US for three decades, I would not tolerate the scofflaws, if I were a policy maker there. “Occupy[ing] parliament”--as some Western reports called it in the past month, though Taiwanese usually call the institution “Legislature” in English, not Congress either--is different from occupying a road. (In US, a legislative branch has the final say over its premise. Such a concept--separation of powers--does not exist in Taiwan, despite President Ma Ying-jeou's Harvard law degree. Thus executive branch there wants to prosecute the protesters, though speaker there would not if he is ever consulted.)
(c) “台湾最高学术机构中央研究院的二十五名院士则联名发表一份共同声明 * * * 引述美国自然资源保护委员会的报告”
About Us. Natural Resources Defense Council, undated www.nrdc.org/about/
, which is just a non-government organization (NGO), not a government agency. In any event, US government will not dictate what another nation should do.