From: dht@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Joyous Dave baby)
Subject: Re: Taiwan News (late)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:31:50 GMT

I saw the article in Asia Week (Chinese version) about the incident that
we are describing here.  One thing I am shocked is that the leader of the
TI movement has not lived in Taiwan for years.  He's lived in various
western countries for many many years, especially the USA.

And as soon as he got back to Taiwan, he started all these political
propaganda and movements.

Now, can Taiwan people trust this person?

1)  he has not been living in a Chinese country for years, and his political
ideas, and way of thinking might have been influenced by Western ideas.  If
you didn't realize already, Westerners seem to believe in splitting up countries
in order to bring short term harmony.  One noticable example is India, Iraq,
and Egypt, all which the British encouraged to split up into 2 separate states.
Whereas Chinese people like unity.

2)  if he loves Taiwan, why has he been overseas all these time?  I don't
care the fact that he is Taiwanese, but he has moved out of the place
by his own choice.

3)  he also said that he doesn't care about the possibility of a CCP invasion.
Now does he really love Taiwan?  Or does he just want to gain power?  If he
loves Taiwan, he would've thought of a better way of moving Taiwan away from
mainland influence, rather than trying to hit Taiwan head to head with the
overbearing mainland.  CCP has promised that as soon as Taiwan declares
independance, it will invade, even at the cost of economic development, and
blood of the Chinese people.  If he loves Taiwan, he should bear these
things in mind, rather than saying he doesn't care.

It seems to me that he's just a Western ideologist who wants to gain power
without a real plan, nor does he care about the well-being of the Taiwan
people.  It sounds a lot like Mao.  I think the day he gained power in Taiwan,
he would turn into a dictator.

Colonize China!  People nowaday are saying HongKong is changing China,
HongKong is colonizing China, etc...; why can't Taiwan start to do the
same, all Chinese will have a better life.  Afterall, Taiwan can't prosper
on its own without mainland and HongKong, given that the Cold War is over.

[Personal opinions only]

In my opinion, Taiwan should use its economic strength to pressure mainland
to give people more freedom (freedom of movement, and freer market economy,
etc), and then negotiate Unification where Taiwan will place a more than
significant role.  TI movement seems to be motivated only by the fear of
mainland; and that's not good; I'm sure if the mainland has a government
and living standard like the USA, NO ONE in Taiwan will be talking about
TI.

Remember, Taiwan people (Hans) only moved to the island few hundred years
ago, we have the same blood running.  If Chinese people don't show unity
now, we will be laughed at by our descendants for thousands of years to
come.

In my opinion, the best thing for Taiwan to do now, is to ask CCP to
legalize other political parties; that will be the first step to a freer
and united China.

[Again, my own opinions only]

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