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Mass Taiwan Protests Signal Demand For More Transparency

More than 100,000 people packed the streets outside Taiwan’s presidential office Sunday to call for scrapping a trade agreement with China. But the mostly younger protesters were less worried about doing business with powerful political rival Beijing than they are fed up with the way deals are made at home. The turnout was estimated between 100,000 and 400,000 as protesters filled boulevards and metro stations in central Taipei, wearing black shirts as a symbol of what they call...

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