【英國特派員】林孟潔：服貿協議的草率令人震驚

【英國特派員】林孟潔：服貿協議的草率令人震驚──剛與馬總統會面的倫敦政經學院教授Christopher Hughes談話記要 

聽說連結被刪了 先備份

I couldn’t recall the detail of the conference I attended in Taiwan last year, but I remember that there was this big discussion about ECFA. I was quite skeptical about ECFA. Was it necessary? Why do you even need ECFA, really? Even if you look at KMT, the impact on GDP is relatively small, much smaller than predictions. And there are a lot of political arguments made about it. There are a lot political than economic I think, both sides, for and against. For the Ma administration, they had to show some progress on the cross-strait relations to get some support from Beijing. The arguments they made were that we have to compete with South Korea. This is not really an argument. If you’re competing with South Korea, it’s hopefully high-technology. Now that is already covered by WTO.

你問我立場 沉默地我望著天空的飛鳥而拒絕答腔

越想越生氣，我無法沉默。

今天有一位大陸同學問我說服貿到底發生甚麼事情? 我解釋到後來差點吵起來。我們等一下要主持一個學術性的小會議，還是不要討論會讓兩人吵架的事情好了。會議結束後我們討論了齒列矯正的話題。不碰政治大家都開心。

開心你個鬼...

319學生攻占立法院反黑箱審服貿

我是芝加哥的鄉民，沒辦法回去幫大家，但是也是守在網路上想要看到最新的進展。讓我從這幾天看到的情形來評論整件事情。

現在場內外好像有些不一樣的聲音，問題在哪裡?

A. 要採用讓馬政府更感到壓力的下一步嗎?
B. 學生團體的訴求和定位現在在哪裡? 達成了嗎?
C. 這股氣可以持續多久?

目前馬政府的態度很明顯，就是拖延戰術不給正面回應。拖到學生團體累了，內部出現不協調的聲音了，就可以輕鬆擊破，或是等待這股氣持續散去。事實上這些聲音已經在內部發酵...從領導同學建議包圍黨部、或是討論需不需要用到更強硬的手段，就可以看得出來。

Hundreds of students occupy Taiwan's Legislature to protest China pact

百餘位學生佔據台灣立法院 抗議與中國協議

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/world/asia/taiwan-student-protests/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

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(CNN) -- Hundreds of students remained barricaded in Taiwan's Legislature early Wednesday in protest of the ruling party's push for a trade pact with China, which demonstrators claim will hurt the island.

The protesters, mostly university students, entered the main assembly hall inside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on Tuesday night and blocked the entrances with chairs, according to images and accounts filed from the scene with CNN iReport.