“The DPP can oppose the ‘1992 consensus,’ but it cannot deny its existence because it is impractical and removed from the facts”
President Ma Ying-jeou, December 28th 2010What appears to be 'removed from the facts' is Ma's entire China policy, based as it is on the strict constitutional interpretation that the territory of PRC remains under the authority of the ROC.
What is disturbing is not only Ma's attempt to hoodwink the Taiwanese into believing something untrue to actually be true but more so his invocation of practicality when dealing with the PRC.
If it is 'impractical' to deny the existence of a fictional consensus that, backtracking from the obviously unsubstantiable claim the the US acknowledged it, only the CCP and KMT share, will it later also be impractical for Taiwanese to demand to maintain their political sovereignty and independence?
The logic is thus: China wishes to annex Taiwan into itself. China is willing to use massive overwhelming force to ensure that this eventually happens if Taiwanese themselves refuse to take this step. In the context of this threat, it will become 'impractical' that Taiwan continues to 'isolate' itself and put itself in danger by refusing to voluntarily annex itself into the PRC as an SAR or whatever.
In short, Ma and his KMT (ROC) will eventually have to argue that it is impractical for Taiwanese to continue to believe that they can solely determine their own future and/or sovereignty. In a way, Ma has already conceded this point by arguing that both sides of the strait should determine the direction of Taiwan's political development thus negating the sovereign right of Taiwanese to solely choose their own path / political system.
Ma and the KMT are deliberately and inexorably boxing Taiwan into a corner, where the Taiwanese will be handed a fait accompli before the next Presidential election and told that any option other than voting for Ma again and his drive towards annexing Taiwan into the PRC is impractical, infeasible, a return to the 'bad old days' (read 2000 to 2008), the destruction of Taiwan's (entirely China-dependent) economy and a provocation that will lead to war.
Ma is serving Taiwanese notice of his complicity with Beijing to blackmail the citizens of this country, writ large. That his entire China policy is a farce and a chimera built upon a lie (and partly facilitated by the very country that is threatening to attack Taiwan) needs to be exposed as often as possible in the run up to the next election, lest Taiwanese be beguiled into voting again for this sycophantic, dishonest, stuck-in-the-past and utterly anti-democratic KMT administration. Ma talks about moving forward whilst actually going full speed in reverse. Taiwanese would be best served by taking everything he says, understanding the reverse to be true and voting this charlatan out of office.
