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Taiwanese students refuse to attend leadership forum in China

Mainland Affairs Council praises student associations for refusing to attend a cross-strait forum organized by China.

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/10/16
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Student associations refuse to travel to China for a leadership forum. (By Central News Agency)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) on Wednesday (Oct. 16) praised student associations for refusing to attend a cross-strait leadership forum organized by China.

The groups from major colleges such as National Taiwan University (NTU) turned down the invitation because they felt the conference would turn into a propaganda platform for Beijing’s communist regime, the Liberty Times reported. The students had grown up in a free and democratic environment marked by independent thinking, so they were able to reach their own conclusions about the nature of the Chinese event, according to MAC.    [FULL  STORY]

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