Hsinchu Mayor Lin Junq-tzer (林政則) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) [was accused by the DPP] of agreeing with Beijing that Taiwan is a province of China. Lin was recently a guest at the unveiling of a monument on Pingtan Island in China’s Fujian Province, just 68km from Taiwan. The inscription on the monument described China as the “motherland” and Taiwan as a subordinate island.and this from former KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄) who ...
Lin said: “The Chinese consider the People’s Republic of China their motherland, but for Taiwan, our mother country will forever be the Republic of China,”
"... yesterday referred to President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) as “chairman” when he asked a Chinese official to convey Ma’s greetings to Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤). While meeting Liang Baohua (梁保華), head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Jiangsu Province, Wu referred to Ma as “chairman” throughout his speech. Only once did he refer to Ma as “yuan shou” (元首) or “head of state.”It should be noted that Wu has form on denigrating the title of President. Perhaps I am biased but this appears to me to be past pragmatism and veering dangerously close to craven, cowardly and treasonable. I wonder what would happen if a former chairman of the US Democratic Party were to refer to Obama as 'Chairman of the Executive' rather than President. I'm guess it would end that person's career quite quickly. The problem here is that every undermining of Taiwan's sovereignty and the status of its elected officials only encourages China to feel that Taiwanese do regard themselves as Chinese (PRC) rather than Chinese (ROC) or, god forbid, Taiwanese (Separatists?). It is clear that the reason why the President wants a year of 'celebrations' of the ROC's 100th year of corrupt and bloody rule is that it is through the ROC framework that annexation will be facilitated. If the Taiwanese don't care much for the ROC (and evidence suggests that they don't), it makes it harder for Ma and the KMT to persuade them to join the PRC, either economically or otherwise.
I would humbly suggest that Taiwanese actively and loudly reclaim the ROC flag as representing the territory of Taiwan, Penghu, lanyu and Liudow exclusively and simply ignore the ROC celebrations in their entirety. I for one will be mourning each day of those celebrations as just salt in the wounds of Taiwanese who have had to endure living under a constitutional order they neither chose nor voted on and one that has them increasingly trapped into a one way street to annexation. When sufficient numbers of Taiwanese perceive that there is no chance of reversal or taking another direction, they may collectively voice 'mei ban fah' and submit themselves to their fate in the hope of profiting from annexation.
I wonder though how those profits will taste when they no longer have the democratic environment in which to enjoy them. It will not be the young and old who sell out Taiwan but the pensive, narrow minded, insecure and perpetually apprehensive middle generation who regard their parenthood as evidence of the 'rightness' of their views.
