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surname Quan

authority / power / right / (literary) to weigh / expedient / temporary

(once) again / also / both... and... / and yet / (used for emphasis) anyway

(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

sovereignty

initiative (as in "seize the initiative") / advantageous position that allows one to call the shots

patent right

scramble for power and profit (idiom); power struggle

centralized state power

to forfeit sovereignty and humiliate the country (idiom) / to surrender territory under humiliating terms

World Intellectual Property Organization

Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Hong Kong

Human Rights in China (New York-based expatriate PRC organization)

centralized autocratic rule

separation of powers

the right of immunity from arrest afforded by the Taiwan ROC Constitution, for the duration of meetings, unless caught actually committing a crime, to members of the National Assembly, the Legislative Yuan, or a supervisory committee

not to submit to force (idiom); to defy threats and violence

leadership (role)

inviolability

sovereign country

the right to host (an international meeting)

separation of powers

autocracy / dictatorship

Universal Declaration of Human Rights