tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post7976816443372951971..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Rounding up again: Post Coloniality on the way!Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-79721780482085000832016-01-13T22:32:22.234+08:002016-01-13T22:32:22.234+08:00"The KMT probably won't be able to rebuil...<i>"The KMT probably won't be able to rebuild, which will be very good for the evolution of democracy in Taiwan."</i><br /><br />I agree that a dying off of the KMT would be very good in certain respects, but I'm not sure it makes any sense to attach values to the "evolution" of something. It makes sense to talk about good or bad <i>plans</i>, good or bad <i>designs</i>, good or bad <i>developments</i> as these can all be judged against one or another set of objectives. However, an <i>evolution</i> is itself without any aim or objective. It is just a series of changes with no "end" in sight.<br /><br />Similarly with "democracy"; and correct me if I'm wrong here, but you carry the view of democracy as basically socialism against both free markets and against capitalism, yet as you know this is not the only view of "democracy". There is also the more limited procedural view; that democracy encompasses electoral mechanisms and some constitutional limitations on government, and that that's basically all there is to it.<br /><br />Your sense of democracy would be aided by the de-facto death of the KMT as there is as yet no conservative or liberal (UK sense) alternative to the KMT, which would leave all politics in Taiwan dominated by leftists; yet the loss of the KMT would be bad in the procedural sense of democracy, as the only opposition to a DPP government would come from other leftist parties, who basically agree with the DPP on everything except that they want more speed and less direction. This would leave a substantial section of the electorate unrepresented.<br /><br />So your point would have carried better by simply saying that the death of the KMT would be very good for "progress" or for "social justice" or for "leftist ideology" or some other bollocks.Mike Faganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-24970511173520924692016-01-11T09:55:19.363+08:002016-01-11T09:55:19.363+08:00KMT truth (pic)KMT <a href="http://postimg.org/image/7g2p5hh11/" rel="nofollow">truth</a> (pic)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-42663287089806514932016-01-10T23:26:42.225+08:002016-01-10T23:26:42.225+08:00After reading this: http://www.businessinsider.com...After reading this: http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-gates-obama-egypt-ben-rhodes-2016-1<br /><br />I wonder if US really has any strategy in Asia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-6530012648886053192016-01-09T21:20:56.749+08:002016-01-09T21:20:56.749+08:00I am an American spouse of a Taiwanese and I "...I am an American spouse of a Taiwanese and I "demand" that if foreign spouses from China are not required to give up their PRC citizenship to become Taiwanese citizens, all other foreigners should not be required to give up our original citizenship either. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com