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Don't feast on China's shit

"Whatever a Chinese tells you, always discount it by half." Such was the distilled wisdom left by our ancestors who chose to settle permanently on Taiwan and took on the Taiwanese identity. Didn't they also say: "Chinese shit is an endless feast?"

But, very obviously, we have not taken their advice to heart lately. We are still hoping and wishing for some sort of peaceful resolution with the Chinese, championed by the KMT's recent publicity stunt. The KMT delegation thoroughly enjoyed the tender, loving strokes from Beijing, which, according to the media, has inspired a surge of interest in future pilgrimages to the "motherland."

Our honorable Lien is due to pay his homage to the Chinese leaders soon.

Soong is anxiously looking for an auspicious date to respond to Chen Yunlin's (陳雲林) invitation. Other delegations are being organized with fervor at the moment. Perhaps, Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) is itching for an invitation, too, to answer to the call of "returning to the motherland."

These lapdogs have unwittingly played into the diabolical schemes of the Chinese authorities, in wanton disregard for the future of the Taiwanese people. They gloat in the reception and recognition from their arch-enemy, who doubtlessly is guffawing with glee at their servile behavior.

Their kowtowing behavior is not only a travesty, but also has given the international community the false impression that Taiwan is indeed part of China. In the minds of the pan-blues, there is not a better way of gaining support than challenging and undermining the leadership at home by obtaining support from their enemy across the Strait. What twisted logic! Their enemy has given them legitimacy.

How sad! Let us not be deceived by this hubbub of parleying and pow-wowing with the Chinese in the name of peace. The Chinese authorities will rebuild Lien's ancestral shrine. Perhaps they will make the same offer to Soong and Ma, too. The Chinese, I believe, will extend this sincere gesture to all the famous dudes in the pan-blue camp.

Former president Chiang Ching-kuo's (蔣經國) son has made multiple trips to his "motherland" and has been admitted to the Chiang clan in China. Chiang Ping-kun (江丙坤), perhaps a native son of Taiwan since he speaks Mandarin with a distinctive Taiwanese accent, clearly identified himself as Chinese in his recent emotional pilgrimage to China. These people share the same identity, which converges to a great extent with that which is highly cherished across the Strait.

Ma lashed out against the TSU delegation which recently visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan to pay respects to the Taiwanese dead who fought for the Japanese during World War II, whereas concurrently there is a furor of anti-Japanese sentiment spreading across China, that the Chinese government tacitly encouraged.

The pan-blues' have stubbornly refused to let the arms bill pass in the legislature. They are a pack of mixed-ups who suddenly realized that they had been politically orphaned by the KMT's demise, and are acutely experiencing the overwhelming rise of a Taiwanese identity in recent years.

Instead of succumbing to that identity and changing their political tune, they continue clinging to an identity that is no longer viable politically, geographically or ideologically: the "Republic of China," which, some reports say was even denied to the KMT delegation during a ceremony honoring the martyrs who overturned the Qing Dynasty.

We cannot put Taiwan's future in these people's hands. When they talk to us, we should bear in mind our ancestors' advice to discount what they say by half. And we should know that there is not much truth in what they say, such as when they give their long-winded discourses about how much they love Taiwan even as they refuse to pass the arms bill and while they act chummy with the enemy who has amassed such a potentially destructive force of missiles aimed at us.

Simply put, these individuals are maniacs trapped in a time warp, and are willing to do anything in desperation, even to sell out Taiwan outright.

Yang Chun-hui
Salt Lake City, Utah

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