Taiwan youth to China: Treat us like a country

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By Michael Gold TAIPEI (Reuters) - Young Taiwan activists have tied themselves up in chains, blocked mountain roads, scaled fences and thrown red paint balloons in a wave of anti-China sentiment likely to turn the island's politics on its head in January's presidential election. An energetic and fast-growing youth movement, united in suspicion of economic and cultural dependence on China, is expected to sweep in a president from a party which favors independence from China, something Communist Party rulers across the narrow Taiwan Strait will never allow. "When my generation comes of age, Taiwan's cross-strait attitude is going to be very different," said student movement leader Huang Yen-ju.

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