Being an independent state
Some people have recently proclaimed: “Taiwan and China, one side, one state.” My mind responded that this “China” should be the “Republic of China” (ROC), not the “People’s Republic of China” (PRC).
Shigeru Oda, an authority in international law, published the thesis A Sovereign Independent Country, Taiwan — Taiwan’s Status Within International Law in 2006. He concluded: “Taiwan was not part of the PRC in the past. Taiwan is not part of the PRC now either.”
He also said “Taiwan’s independence” should never have to be separated from that of the PRC.
The concept of separating Taiwan from the PRC should never have existed.
Needless to say, the so-called “Taiwan independence” movement of the past half-century should have meant “Taiwanese independent from the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)-ROC.”
It has never had anything to do with the PRC regime in Beijing. His view is identical with that of my late husband, C.C. Yang (楊基銓).
The Liberty Times published an article by my husband on July 26, 1998, titled “The sovereignty of Taiwan independence and the ROC,” in which he wrote that the only way to reach the real sovereignty of Taiwanese independence, to break away from China’s entanglement and to ensure Taiwan’s security, was to draw a line between Taiwan and the ROC. We need to make a clear division between Taiwan and the ROC.
I believe that before China’s reunification issue is resolved, the ROC government should move to Kinmen and Matsu to act as truly “Taiwan and China, one side, one state.” After that, Taiwan will not have any connection with the ROC.
We all have a sense of crisis about Taiwan’s future. Therefore, we always say: “Let’s fight to win.”
However, this sentence is not very practical, it’s just like the popular saying, “To use a fist to crack the stone lion.” The result is that while the stone lion is cracked, your fists are injured. Your hands might even be so badly damaged as to become unusable.
We need to use a machine to process this stone lion job. We need to use wisdom, and not be swayed by personal feelings. I sincerely hope to gather like-minded people together to study the possible strategies.
International treaties and historical facts indicate that the sovereignty of Taiwan and Penghu was not vested under the ROC government. It is a right of Taiwanese to establish their own country.
When you use bulldozers, high-rise buildings can be crushed to the ground in a short time. In the market I frequently hear statements like: “Incompetent government that cannot take good care of its people, let’s pull it down now!”
However, the best policy is to use wisdom with the “bulldozers” to overturn the long-ruling KMT.
YANG LIU HSIU-HWA (楊劉秀華)
Taipei
There is much evidence that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is sending soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and is learning lessons for a future war against Taiwan. Until now, the CCP has claimed that they have not sent PLA personnel to support Russian aggression. On 18 April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinskiy announced that the CCP is supplying war supplies such as gunpowder, artillery, and weapons subcomponents to Russia. When Zelinskiy announced on 9 April that the Ukrainian Army had captured two Chinese nationals fighting with Russians on the front line with details
On a quiet lane in Taipei’s central Daan District (大安), an otherwise unremarkable high-rise is marked by a police guard and a tawdry A4 printout from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicating an “embassy area.” Keen observers would see the emblem of the Holy See, one of Taiwan’s 12 so-called “diplomatic allies.” Unlike Taipei’s other embassies and quasi-consulates, no national flag flies there, nor is there a plaque indicating what country’s embassy this is. Visitors hoping to sign a condolence book for the late Pope Francis would instead have to visit the Italian Trade Office, adjacent to Taipei 101. The death of
By now, most of Taiwan has heard Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an’s (蔣萬安) threats to initiate a vote of no confidence against the Cabinet. His rationale is that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)-led government’s investigation into alleged signature forgery in the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) recall campaign constitutes “political persecution.” I sincerely hope he goes through with it. The opposition currently holds a majority in the Legislative Yuan, so the initiation of a no-confidence motion and its passage should be entirely within reach. If Chiang truly believes that the government is overreaching, abusing its power and targeting political opponents — then
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), joined by the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), held a protest on Saturday on Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei. They were essentially standing for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is anxious about the mass recall campaign against KMT legislators. President William Lai (賴清德) said that if the opposition parties truly wanted to fight dictatorship, they should do so in Tiananmen Square — and at the very least, refrain from groveling to Chinese officials during their visits to China, alluding to meetings between KMT members and Chinese authorities. Now that China has been defined as a foreign hostile force,
RSS