Even if China's proposed anti-secession law is passed next month, it will not apply to Taiwan for several reasons.
First, as a domestic law, the anti-secession legislation does not affect Taiwan, a political entity separate from China.
Second, it can only prohibit future secessions. Taiwan has been separate from China for 110 years and is exempted by the grandfather clause.
Third, the war between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the communists had nothing to do with the Taiwanese. The KMT had nowhere to go after being defeated by the communists except for Taiwan.
Fourth, Taiwan was annexed and then ceded permanently by the Qing Dynasty, a foreign invader of China.
Fifth, following world trends, Taiwanese have gone from colonialism and dictatorship to democracy and freedom. They will never go back to dictatorship.
Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) is little more than a dictator. Unfortunately, almost one-quarter of the world lives under the Chinese Communist dictatorship.
Under the anti-secession law, former Chinese president Jiang Zemin (江澤民) might be investigated for his alleged ceding of China's border territories to Russia and India during his presidency.
These ceded territories are many times the size of Taiwan. If this secession is true, it will contradict Beijing's insistence that no part of it territory leave the Chinese fold.
Charles Hong
Columbus, Ohio
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