Liberty Times: Accomplice in annexation plan
Ma Ying-jeou
The newspaper quoted Ma as saying: "Whether there will be reunification as expected by the mainland side depends very much on what is going to unfold in the next decade."
 Although the Presidential Office quickly produced a recording showing that Ma actually said "decades  " the issue is not about "decade" or "decades."
 Ma's major fault lies in his ignorance of Taiwan's independent sovereign status. There is no such issue as unification of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. The term "unification" is just a term coined by China to camouflage its attempt to annex Taiwan.
 Ma's other mistake is his failure to recognize that only the 23 million people of Taiwan have the right to decide Taiwan's future. Since Taiwan and China are two different countries  China's 1.3 billion people should have no say in determining Taiwan's destiny. It is wrong to say that Taiwan's future would be jointly decided by people on both sides of the strait.
 Most threatening  is that Ma thinks  Taiwan  has resisted unification because "conditions are not ripe...We don't even know each other that well."
 Ma must remember that as a popularly elected president  he is obligated to defend Taiwan's national security and sovereignty. If he fails in his duty and lets the people down  he would be a traitor.
The newspaper quoted [TGT] as saying: "Whether there will be reunification as expected by the mainland side depends very much on what is going to unfold in the next decade."
 Although the Presidential Office quickly produced a recording showing that [TGT] actually said "decades  " the issue is not about "decade" or "decades."
 Ma's major fault lies in his ignorance of Taiwan's independent sovereign status. There is no such issue as unification of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. The term "unification" is just a term coined by China to camouflage its attempt to annex Taiwan.
 [TGT]'s other mistake is [TGT] failure to recognize that only the 23 million people of Taiwan have the right to decide Taiwan's future. Since Taiwan and China are two different countries  China's 1.3 billion people should have no say in determining Taiwan's destiny. It is wrong to say that Taiwan's future would be jointly decided by people on both sides of the strait.
 Most threatening  is that [TGT] thinks  Taiwan  has resisted unification because "conditions are not ripe...We don't even know each other that well."
 Ma must remember that as a popularly elected president  he is obligated to defend Taiwan's national security and sovereignty. If he fails in his duty and lets the people down  he would be a traitor.