[Calling the measure a] serious provocation, ... restricts Taiwan's freedom and democracy, and has a serious impact on security in the East-Asia region.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Well we can try to measure democracy, just as you measure temperature with a thermometer, or pressure with a barometer.

I think the greatest security measure is pre-pay, period,

It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

They also called for improvements to the social security system, an acceleration of medical reform and the promotion of safety production.