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A college professor, Tsay Ting-kuei “Aquia”, is chairman of the Alliance of Referendum for Taiwan. Aquia Tsay also helps lead the Taiwan Justice Rescue Force and has taken Chen Shui-bian’s case to the streets. The imprisoned Chen is the former president of the Republic of China in-exile jailed by his successor Ma Ying-jeou for alleged corruption. Aquia granted an on-the-spot interview at Democracy Camp in Taipei.

Democracy Camp was a four-day encampment outside the presidential office building where the Taiwan independence movement gathered. The camp was the culmination of a month-long march around the island by members of the Taiwan Justice Rescue Force to bring attention to the case of Chen Shui-bian.

The radar-lock that a Chinese frigate put on a Japanese warship was “dangerous” and “provocative,” Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said yesterday, as tensions rose in a territorial row.

“It was a dangerous act that could have led to an unpredictable situation,” Abe told parliament. “It is extremely regrettable. We strongly ask for their self-restraint in order to avoid an unnecessary escalation.”

The hawkish prime minister, who took office in late December last year following a landslide election victory, described the radar-locking as a “unilateral provocative action by the Chinese side.”