tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post6702320666265977414..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: ROC National Day: Ma calls for Hong Kong DemocracyMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-45014632634949746632014-10-12T19:16:54.995+08:002014-10-12T19:16:54.995+08:00Please explain how this handover could actually ha...<b>Please explain how this handover could actually happen.</b><br /><br />It couldnt. But that doesn't stop the KMT from behaving as if it could. Michael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-55304122018621528862014-10-12T16:10:53.089+08:002014-10-12T16:10:53.089+08:00But it is obvious that the KMT can't continue ...<i>But it is obvious that the KMT can't continue in power in Taiwan after annexing the island to China without local autonomy. China's Hong Kong policy, which continues to strengthen independence feelings in Taiwan and has dealt a body blow to US policy in doing so, is also putting a crimp in KMT plans to maintain power in Taiwan after the handover</i><br /><br />And what is this handover you talk about? Have the 80%+ citizens of Taiwan opposed to unification suddenly decided they want to unify with China? Have the DPP and other smaller opposition parties decided to forego independence and throw their lot in with China?<br /><br />Please explain how this handover could actually happen.A Realistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-90248096661693451562014-10-12T14:33:13.125+08:002014-10-12T14:33:13.125+08:00"... the Hong Kong protesters while excoriati...<i>"... the Hong Kong protesters while excoriating the Taiwan protesters for hurting democracy, though both were doing exactly the same thing for pretty much the same reasons."</i><br /><br />They were not doing "exactly" the same thing, and you know this. The HK protesters were demanding universal suffrage, which Taiwan already has, whereas the Sunflower protesters were demanding that a trade deal be revised or rejected in the Legislature. <br /><br />That is a categorical difference.<br /><br />You might say that there was a similarity in the broader <i>aims</i> of their action viz resistance to political control from Beijing, but to say that the two sets of protesters were doing "exactly the same thing" is obviously false. Mike Faganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-78307918797171088942014-10-12T11:37:51.708+08:002014-10-12T11:37:51.708+08:00Having abandoned his "I am Taiwanese if you p...Having abandoned his "I am Taiwanese if you please" as a vote-getting strategy, he has changed tack to now become a "champion of democracy." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-57719241803120861092014-10-11T23:23:32.990+08:002014-10-11T23:23:32.990+08:00Should anything Wolfowitz says be taken seriously?...Should anything Wolfowitz says be taken seriously? He is a flawed character and one of the architects of the Islamic State group disaster in Iraq and Syria. And as chairman of the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council, his opinion reflects nothing more than the interests of America's agricultural and services sector. Wolfowitz knows better than anyone that the days of Washington selling Taipei nothing but outdated, junk military hardware are over. He also knows that Taipei is dragging its feet on paying for every purchase agreed to since Ma took in office May 2008. When will the people of Taiwan get up off their knees and bring the curtain down on this pathetic pantomime?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-74665794950157502612014-10-11T22:50:33.140+08:002014-10-11T22:50:33.140+08:00Your explanation of the KMT's goal for unifica...Your explanation of the KMT's goal for unification makes total sense, and also makes clear that what they want is as impossible a dream as Take Back the Mainland 光復大陸 was. The fundamental principle of the Communist Party is that it shares power and authority with no one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com