Chu sees Taiwan as Hainan
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) visited Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping (習近平) on Monday and has declared that “both shores commonly belong to one China.” (Editorial, May 5, page 8).
Chu must have mistaken Taiwan for Hainan Island. Though good at accounting and actuarial science, Chu cannot distinguish between the nation and a Chinese island, and thus fails at geography. His knowledge of history, logic, democracy and common sense also has to be refreshed.
Chu wants to “deepen” the so-called “1992 consensus” by insisting on “one China” and chopping off the “respective interpretations.” He has a daydream that Beijing would give Taiwan more international space if it were a part of China.
Former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) has reiterated that the “1992 consensus” does not exist, while former Mainland Affairs Council chairman Su Chi (蘇起) publicly acknowledged that he fabricated it.
It is naive of Chu to deepen the “1992 consensus.” The KMT should not seek to cover up the 228 Incident and the White Terror era, distort the 1952 Treaty of Taipei or uphold the “1992 consensus.”
During the White Terror era, the KMT had a popular political slogan: “Kill the pig (former Chinese general Zhu De, 朱德) and pull the hair (Mao Zedong, 毛澤東).” Taiwanese do not want to “Kill the pig (Chu) and get rid of the horse (President Ma Ying-jeou, 馬英九),” but it can be said that replacing Ma as KMT chairman with Chu was like the Taiwanese saying: “One with incontinence is replaced by another with diarrhea.”
It is fortunate that Chu will not run for president next year. He is not qualified at all.
Charles Hong
Columbus, Ohio
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