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skinny wimp that wouldn't stop hiccuping. Freak.

FTFY

So basically you were forced to do crunches for over a year.

What amazing thing did you do during the process that you didn't expect you were able to do?

It is interesting how this protest has not be framed in the context of social and political culture. Due to the Cultural Revolution, segmentation of extended families, and other policies, China has been castrated of thousands of years of social and political culture. There is only the state and the state is the Chinese people. In fact many mainland Chinese are so mistaken about the de facto independence of Taiwan, they have arguments based upon "Taiwan, let's see you try to be your own country, you will see how hard it is." The ignorance of de factor realities is astounding.

I see closer ties to China as extremely risky for Taiwan's social and political culture, namely Confucianism, democracy, and others. Have there been any official assessments from this perspective? I feel like this argument is much stronger than any general "my democracy is at stake" when what was done was not technically unconstitutional but merely in bad faith.