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Democracy put on pause in Taiwan

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Police stole Republic of China flags from citizens in Taipei on Monday, November 3. An unannounced ban on displaying the de facto country's own flag was sprung upon protestors who were hoping to harrass the visiting head of Beijing's de facto "reunification" board. Tibetan flags were also unwelcome. In fact, the whole highway between the airport and the city's fabled Grand Hotel effectively became a martial law zone.

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Peter Dearman is a Canadian teaching English and living in Taiwan. (edit) Now he runs a bar too. He is concerned about the generally high level of bad things happening in the world today, especially on the matters of depleted uranium, repression (more...)

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