From: joy@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Chien-Chung Chen)
Subject: Re: more than 50% support TI
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 04:10:34 GMT

In article <C070nL.31n@ulowell.ulowell.edu> cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi) writes:
>It is unbelievable, unfortunately it is true. ......

Well, since you are so consistent, I think I have to spend a little more
time exchanging opinions with you.

The point is not ROC officials being stupid or not. Since I didn't see
Buckley's program, I can't comment whether those ROC officials were
stupid from my point of view. However, they are ROC officials. Whether
they are suitable for their jobs should be decided by ROC citizens,
not by other people. Since ROC is a "democratic COUNTRY", we have the
mechanism to vote the current government out of office and replace it
with the one that we like (or we think is less stupid). Perhaps we
Taiwanese are stupid and shallow in your eyes, but at least you should
respect what we choose.

Maybe you like CCP and are willing to be ruled by it. Maybe CCP can
make China a strong country. But to Taiwanese people, nothing is more
important than people's wellfare. When TAM massacre occurred, many
Taiwanese shed tears for those students because our hearts are still
tightly connected with China. We want Mainlanders to be as free and
wealthy as Taiwanese. It hurts our hearts to see Chinese young
students being run over by their ruler's tanks. How I wish China were
a democratic country so that Chinese people could vote those butchers
out of office and bring in justice!

Unfortunately, China is not a democratic country. And many Chinese
still think CCP's dictatorship is better than democracy. In fact,
no matter how good CCP is, Taiwanese will not trust our fate to the
hand of any non-democratic dictator that we cannot control. Since
Dr. Sun's revolution in 1911, finally we can enjoy democracy in
Taiwan. We don't want to go back to CCP's dictatorship.

Please try to understand what Taiwanese want. It's not right to send
your mighty PLA to Taiwan because you think Taiwanese are stupid or
what. If China should try to do this, Taiwanese would definitely see
it as "invasion" from Chinese imperialism. This way you can only make
Taiwanese hate Mainlanders and CCP has to suppress this hatred by
force like it did to Mainlanders after 64. I believe you realize how
unfair those Western imperialism did to China last century. Hope
China will not do the same thing to Taiwan.

After all, we are all Chinese. Most people want to see China strong,
democratic and wealthy so that Taiwan can unify with China with ease.
If you want to see this day to come, please devote yourself to the
democratization of China. Without our human right being protected by
democracy, we are reluctant to become part of China.

Chinese people have suffered for thousands of years. Chinese people's
human right has been trashed by almost every ruler. Before you accuse
other countries of imperialism, please think what's wrong with our
own government. Only after our own government respect our own human
right, can we expect other countries to expect us.

In fact, if it were not for unification, we Taiwanese should not care
how you love your CCP government. If you don't want us to criticize
CCP's ruling, please do not ask Taiwan to unify with China.

-- Chien-Chung Chen
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan