over the weekend there were several rallies. one for calling taiwan taiwan and scrapping the name republic of china. and two more for remaining the republic of china or reuniting with china. i walked through a crowd of people for the call taiwan taiwan rally on my way to work on saturday. they all seemed rather excited and peaceful. there were a lot of students gone at the school that day too. i'm not sure if that was just a coincidence or if they were at the rally. the people calling for reunification with china seem rather frightening to me though.