Although I never personal been to Taiwan, but if I were to introduce the island to a westerner, who is utterly ignore of it’s people and culture, there aren’t any phases more fitting to describes the current situation in Taiwan than “The Land of Street Protest”.
Few developed countries ever experience the scale of protests that Taiwan experience weekly, in term of: the number of protestors, the level of involvement from political parties, civilian and charities institutions.
What amazes me the most is the unprecedented event that took place on March 26th. The head of its government not only encourage the mass public and instructed government officials and civil servants to stage a street protest against a bill that was pass by a sovereign nation’s parliament, but he himself joined the street protest to march to the island’s executive building, where he himself work and resides.
The protest is nothing but a laughable publicity ploy in a massive scale, which serve no pragmatic purpose. What perplexed me was the way local media portrait the event as a huge success on the international relation front.
The whole event reminds me of an American proverb, when a room full of people is laughing, beware if they’re laughing with you, or laughing at you!
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