Dna India
Date: 1 July 2015
By: Agency: Reuters

Young Taiwan activists have tied themselves up in chains, blocked mountain roads, scaled fencesand thrown red paint balloons in a wave of anti-China sentiment likely to turn the island’s politics on its head in January’s presidential election.

Young Taiwan activists have tied themselves up in chains, blocked mountain roads, scaled fencesand thrown red paint balloons in a wave of anti-China sentiment likely to turn the island’s politics on its head in January’s presidential election.

An energetic and fast-growing youth movement, united in suspicion of economic and cultural dependence on China, is expected to sweep in a president from a party which favours independence from China, something Communist Party rulers across the narrow Taiwan Strait will never allow.

“When my generation comes of age, Taiwan’s cross-strait attitude is going to be very different,” said student movement leader Huang Yen-ju. “We want China to treat us like a country.”     [FULL  STORY]