Taiwan's Discontent With Ma Runs Deeper Than Cross-Strait Trade Pact

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Ralph Jennings, Taiwan's Discontent Runs Deeper Than Cross-Strait Trade Pact; Youth protests were spurred by more than just trade pact with the mainland, and had substantial support from across island. South China Morning Post, Apr 26, 2014 (available now)   
www.scmp.com/news/china/article/ ... s-strait-trade-pact

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“‘The demonstrators [occupy parliament] obviously have little regard for the Ma administration, and this was as much a manifestation of that as anything related to the service-trade agreement,’ said Alan Romberg of the Stimson Centre, a Washington think tank.

“Ma may be the most frustrated of all [having faced protests over. among other things, death of an army conscript and a fourth nuclear plant]

My comment: There is no need to read the rest, which is familiar.