Nonetheless, Mr. Koo talked to Mr. Jiang at length about Taiwan's democracy, sharing with the mainland the island's experience. This forced Mr. Jiang to get past the moment by awkwardly falling back on the same canard that Taiwan's experience is not necessarily applicable to the mainland's style of "democracy."
但辜先生還是在江先生面前暢談台灣的民主，並願與大陸分享民主經驗，逼得江先生只好又搬出他的民主相對論老調勉強應付過去。