Taiwan evolved into a democracy because of the hard work of the Taiwanese democratic opposition. This statement failed to distinguish between the repressive Kuomintang regime and the Taiwanese people. The UN has not discussed yet how and when the people of Taiwan will be represented. China did - helped along by the US State Department's bungling. Mr. Lee was invited to his alma mater Cornell after a 97-1 favorable vote in the US Senate.
China is the problem, because it stubbornly refuses to accept Taiwan as a friendly neighbor.
The Washington Post article evoked a series of letters to the editor from leading figures in the Taiwanese-Amerivcan community. China is the problem. Except for the brief period of 1887 to 1895, Taiwan has never been a part of China. It has always been ruled by European powers such as the Dutch, the Spanish and the Portuguese. And until the end of World War II, the island was a Japanese colony.