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But after facing decades of threats, there is also now "a sense of Beijing as the boy who cried wolf," says Wen-ti Sung, a political scientist with the Australian National University's Taiwan Center.

When we meet the main character, Sung Jin-woo, he is mankind's "weakest weapon" - but after a near-death experience, he becomes the only one with the ability to "level up" his abilities.

Sung told The Standard that Marcotte came into his restaurant, sat down and didn’t greet him.

“If you’re not actually doing what the District Court found you to be doing and enjoined you from doing, then there should be no harm,” Sung said.

But the Great Recall is also "creating space for renewed political activism", especially for DPP supporters, added Dr Sung, which he characterised as an overall boon to the resiliency of Taiwan's civil society.