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Ma hopes Beijing will improve rights

MEMORIES NEVER DIE:Ma said cross-strait differences in human rights needed to be overcome before closer contact is made, but stopped short of making demands

By Chen Hui-ping and Chris Wang  /  Staff reporters, with CNA

Since the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has neither shouldered the responsibility to promote democratization in a rapidly changing China, nor shown any intention to do so, the DPP will have to embrace the challenge and responsibility, she said, adding that the Chinese government has not changed after 23 years, as Beijing still refuses to listen to the public’s voice and engage in introspection on its use of state violence.

Translated by Jake Chung, staff writer

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