The demonstrators were demonstrating a more deliberative way of talking about the Cross-Strait Service and Trade Agreement. The Trade in Service Agreement, the CSSTA was rushed through by the Parliament without substantial deliberation, as would fit a normal international treaty. It’s at that time interpreted as not strictly international, and the public hearings were not inclusive enough, and the ideas were not being taken into account. It was seen as just a formal process. There’s no line-by-line deliberation of alternatives, and so on.

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