tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post5550164821382090912..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Brookings Hosts Call for Taiwan to Enter Talks under One China rubricMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-75868728682485635982011-06-26T15:49:52.714+08:002011-06-26T15:49:52.714+08:00There was a PRC official who came a couple years a...There was a PRC official who came a couple years ago around the time Ma was proposing a change to the system of letting PRC citizens attend Taiwanese universities. He was visiting Confucius Temple in Tainan and an old lady started beating him on the sidewalk.<br /><br />I saw a video report of it on the BBC world news front page at the time, but I can't find it now. So I think that technically a Chinese official has been beaten in Taiwan, and yes, it was really funny.Lonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03354692712413154309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-9233810862437425762011-06-26T03:20:21.604+08:002011-06-26T03:20:21.604+08:00The US liberal position is to love China. Is it b...The US liberal position is to love China. Is it because the left taken to the extreme is usually thought to end with communism? It's optimistic on all things foreign, and when you have a deceptive China, the liberals try to bend their minds to accept the extreme position.<br /><br />The US conservative position is generally xenophobic and somewhat racist (though these days, sometimes it's not as obvious). So it's very natural to hate China and the policy tends to be quite hawkish on the China-Taiwan issue. Which happens to be the right position because China is going to take as much as it can from you unless you stand up and say no.<br /><br />But I think though as people more familiar with the issues, culture, and people, we arrive at some conclusion, we need to remember the fundamental dangerous optimism and poisonous xenophobia that drives the positions of those unfamiliar with Taiwan and China.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-15087594486196183182011-06-23T22:28:39.180+08:002011-06-23T22:28:39.180+08:00LOL. Nicely put, D.LOL. Nicely put, D.Michael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-81997041830471056432011-06-23T22:21:29.552+08:002011-06-23T22:21:29.552+08:00My guess is that Brookings saw this as the closest...My guess is that Brookings saw this as the closest thing we'll have to a current view on thinking about Taiwan within the Hu Jintao "administration", since it comes from a quasi-official cross-straits working group. And I guess they assume readers will approach it with the right eyes?<br /><br />There is a lot of funny stuff in there. Like how he offhandedly defines "status quo" as "the facts that both “ROC” and “PRC” exist and claim to be the sovereign state of “the one China”". I thought "status quo" meant Taiwan is not under PRC control. His comments on the missiles are pretty comical too: "the Mainland participants try to convey to the Taiwan side that the Mainland military deployment along its cost is no longer focusing on Taiwan, but increasingly goes beyond Taiwan and counters growing American military activities in the Western Pacific, which are certainly a threat to China’s national security." That must be reassuring.<br /><br />I wonder if the boilerplate vilification of the DPP will ever be put to rest. The "destroy by propaganda" approach hasn't worked very well for them with the Dalai Lama, Falungong, Ai Weiwei, or for the past 60 years generally. Perhaps they will see that?Dnoreply@blogger.com