The attached keynote speech was delivered at the annual symposium of the World Taiwanese Congress in Taipei on March 14. Placed here with permission of Gordon Chang.
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TextGordon G. Chang
In an ideal world, the 23 million people of Taiwan would determine their own fate.
In an ideal world, everyone would be free.
In an ideal world, no one would listen to Communist dictators.
But we do not live in an ideal world. In the world in which we do live, the dominant narrative is that this is “China’s century.” The Chinese believe it, and so does most everyone else.
And because just about everybody thinks we are living in a Chinese universe, they
follow Beijing’s line and shun Taiwan.
But this is going to change soon, for two reasons. China is falling, and Taiwan is rising...
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