Formed in Formosa

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SIPPING ICED coffee at a trendy restaurant in Tainan, a city in southern Taiwan, Li Jiabao appears calm despite the attention the 20-year-old student's outspoken views have recently attracted on the island's campuses. Mr Li is a student of pharmacy from the eastern Chinese province of Shandong. In March he released a startling self-recorded video in which he denounced China's decision, unveiled about a year ago, to scrap the ten-year term limit for the presidency. He compared China's current leader, Xi Jinping, to an "emperor". Most Chinese students in Taiwan keep quiet about politics at home. But Mr Li says living in Taiwan's "model democracy" inspired him to speak out. Last month he applied for political asylum there.