“I think this is a sign of the times, where the DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] has finally realized that the young activists that were once a thorn in their side are now an asset to them,” said Lev Nachman, a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Irvine. … “I think young people want to see themselves in politics.”
 
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