NYT Interviews Ma Ying-Jeou

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Keith Bradsher and 王霜舟, 马英九：支持香港民主不会以两岸关系为代价. 纽约时报中文网, Nov 1, 2014
cn.nytimes.com/china/20141101/c01taiwan/

, which is translated from

Keith Bradsher and Austin Ramzy, Taiwan Leader Stresses Support for Hong Kong Protesters; Speaking out on a sensitive issue for Beijing. New York Times, Nov 1, 2014.

two consecutive paragraphs:

“Mr Ma drew a distinction between his support for the protests in Hong Kong and his condemnation of student protests in Taipei last spring that indefinitely delayed one of his free-trade agreements with the mainland.

“He suggested that the protests in Taiwan, involving the temporary seizing of the legislature and the main government office building, had been more violent than the demonstrations in Hong Kong, where the authorities contend that protesters had kicked police officers and poked them with umbrellas. ‘There is absolutely no contradiction, as I support democracy but oppose violence,’ Mr Ma said.