Joel LintonJan 14th, 2008 - 04:16:19

Applause to this Deutch Presse-Agentur writer who did not repeat the usual propaganda of China: the oft' repeated 'split amidst civil war' that is factually incorrect.

Finally we see a more accurate description of what happened:

'The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), formerly the ruling party in China, fled to Taiwan after losing the Chinese Civil War in 1949, to set up its government-in-exile.'

Exactly -- a government in exile (on foreign soil).

The KMT siezed Taiwan and pretended to be governing China and pretended that Taiwan supposedly had been part of China all along --- when of course Taiwan was not and had never been part of China. Only the west part of Taiwan had been nominally part of a Manchu empire that also had conquered China, but was dissolved after the overthrow of the last Manchu emperor at the beginning of the 20th century. By that time, Taiwan had already been ceded by the Manchu Empire (in A.D. 1895) in perpetuity to Japan who annexed it as a colony and proceeded to conquer the up-until-then independent east coast, and so finally united Taiwan under a single government. Japan in turn relinquished its claim to Taiwan in 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty, but it did not designate a successor and specifically did not, repeat did not, transfer Taiwan to the KMT 'Republic of China' government in exile.

So it is time for the United Nations to admit Taiwan in as a full-member.

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Re: Joel LintonJan 14th, 2008 - 04:30:25

And so what?

The UN is NOT going to admit Taiwan as long as China is a member of the Security Council, so you better dash that notion.

Secondly, the KMT democratically destroyed the DPP in the legislative elections. Anything about that? Despite all the negative stuff you say, the Taiwanese people saw through all that cheap rhetoric and STILL elected the KMT. They must really hate Chen, the DPP, or even independence.

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By the way, LintonJan 14th, 2008 - 04:38:59

Did you see the Taiwanese stock markets soar today, because of the KMT victory?

As you can see, the economy improves with the KMT at the helm. The DPP maybe progressive and all, but they fail miserably in terms of economic policy. I think the DPP would rather the Taiwanese people starve and have no money to make ends meet while being independent than simply having the status quo with Taiwanese being prosperous.

What a great political party that is.

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