🗞️🗞️🗞️香港英文媒體 Hong Kong Free Press HKFP （香港自由新聞）刊登一則我的專訪，題目為：
《民主前線的台灣政治人物：距離中國大陸17公里》
（The Taiwanese politician on the frontline of democracy, 17 km from mainland China）
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🔺“So the Chinese Communist Party, they try to tell the world that if you identity with Chinese culture, then you must support the CCP. They try to equate the two. But what we’re seeing in Matsu, especially in the younger generation, is you can simultaneously take pride in Chinese culture or Fujian heritage and stand against authoritarianism, against the CCP.”
中國共產黨想要告訴世界，如果你認同中華文化，就一定要支持中共。他們想要兩者劃上等號。但我們在馬祖看到的，特別是年輕世代，一個人可能以中華文化或福建閩東文化為榮，也同時反對威權主義、反對中共。
🔺Lii added that another way to resist Chinese authoritarianism, which asserts a homogeneous national identity, was to embrace a nuanced sense of national unity without negating minority cultures in Taiwan.
李問也指出抵制中共威權主義的另一個面向：中共往往想要把同質性的國家認同，強加在不同的地區。但台灣對於凝聚內部認同，應該更細緻，避免忽視國內少數族群、地區的文化。
🔺“For Taiwan to move forward to become a better country, can we present a better narrative of national cohesion without erasing the identities of offshore islands?” he asked. “There should be unity or solidarity among people in Taiwan who hold a Chinese identity or a Taiwanese identity.”
「如果台灣要不斷進步成為一個更好的國家，我們可否提出一套凝聚國族的論述，又同時避免抹煞離島的認同？」他這樣問。「在台灣，擁有中華文化認同與台灣文化認同的人，應該要彼此團結。」
🔺This common, unifying factor should be support for democracy.
團結所有人的公約數，就是支持民主。
🔺As a free enclave on the edge of China, the islands of Matsu offered a glimpse of what a democratic China can look like. “If we can create a working two-party system in Matsu, then we show to the world a positive example in which an area which speaks the Fuzhou language can [enjoy democracy].”
作為位處中國邊緣一塊自由的飛地，馬祖列島有機會讓世界看見一個民主的中國，所能展現的樣貌。「如果我們在馬祖成功創造兩黨體制，我們向全世界證明一個成功的例子，一個講福州話的地區也能〔享有民主〕。」
🔺For Lii, the fact that Matsu can be a beacon of democracy on the edge of China is a source of pride. “I think this is something Matsu can be proud of, regardless of party politics.”
對李問來說，馬祖在中國邊緣可以作為一個民主的燈塔，便值得驕傲。「我覺得這是馬祖可以驕傲的事情，不管政黨立場。」
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