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Welcome to Facebook, Taiwan poll candidate tells Chinese as posts flood in

November 11, 2015 creative china, crucial, democratic, ing-wen, online-threats, party, response, their-central, traditions

Tens of thousands of posts apparently from China have flooded Taiwan presidential election front runner Tsai Ing-wen's Facebook account, demanding that the island return to China – and her response on Wednesday was to welcome mainland interest in democracy. The surge in posts, nearing 70,000 by Wednesday, is all the more astonishing because Facebook is generally blocked in Communist Party-ruled China, although there are ways of getting around firewalls.

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U.S. campuses hold race protests after Missouri resignations

November 11, 2015 admin carnahan, center-at-yale, crucial, ing-wen, missouri, party, resignation, the-university, traditions, university

Students will hold events to highlight racial issues at a handful of U.S. college campuses this week, spurred by the impact of protests at the University of Missouri that culminated in the resignation of the school's president and chancellor. Peaceful marches or walkouts have been held, or are planned, at Yale University, Ithaca College and Smith College, though none has yet reached the intensity of demonstrations at Missouri, where hundreds of students and teachers protested what they saw as soft handling of reports of racial abuse on campus