1 Million March in Taiwan

In what is becoming a common, but never tiring, test of people's desire for freedom around the world, approximately 1 million people marched in Taiwan in protest against China's new law that calls for military force in the event of a formal declaration of independence by the island.

I'm not surprised. In this new Age of Democracy, if people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Kyrgyzstan can gain their independence from unwanted rulers, the Taiwanese people must be asking why freedom shouldn't also apply to them. They have a point.

Publius Pundit has more on the protest. My View of the World also has an interesting (and correct) observation:

Around here if you get 3 people with a sign and a bullhorn coming out against Bush, the war, Haliburton or drilling in ANWR and you get massive coverage in the MSM (Main Stream Media), but why is their coverage so lacking when millions of people around the world march for Democracy and Freedom? Sure, it get’s a short story, but 1,000,000 people in Taiwan, the thousands in Krygyzstan as they took control of their government, and the events in The Ukraine, demonstrations across Iran, Iraqi citizens fighting insurgents on their own and marching through the streets condemning the terrorists…