And as far as I recall, other than old Second Uncle Neihu and Peanutissimo Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石), nobody in Taiwan ever asked the US to sacrifice troops in our name.
Countless polls have shown that only a small percentage of crazies want either unification or independence right here, right now. Most Taiwanese want things to stay as they are for the time being. This is what they voted for. They did not vote for backroom deals between KMT hacks and the Chinese Communist Party. This is why we have Suspicious Minds.
We don’t want to live under another murderous regime. Been there, done that. Why don’t people like Mr. F get this?
Maybe deep down the congressman would be nicer to us if he read up on some Asian history. I am assuming this based on comments he made during a visit to Vietnam in 2007 (Mr. F is a Vietnam vet).
He called Ho Chi Minh a “great leader.”
Uncle Ho, according to Mr. F, “only wanted to get rid of 100 years of French colonialism and establish a better life for his own people.”
Well, we here in Taiwan haven’t quite healed our colonial injuries, but we have fought for and achieved a better life; freedom of speech and of the press; a good standard of living; and the right to kick out a shitty government. We would like to keep it that way.
But becoming a special autonomous zone of China won’t guarantee these things, as the Hong Kong experiment has demonstrated.
This is why we value the TRA and its advocacy of a resolution acceptable to us, and this is why we don’t appreciate fair weather friends meddling with it.
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