“While a great majority of the Taiwanese people reject Chinese communist rule, the KMT government is rapidly paving the ground for annexation by China,” said Jay Loo (盧主義), one of the organizers. “Economic integration measures negotiated by the Chinese Communist Party and the KMT are implemented by the Executive Yuan without public debate or approval by the Legislative Yuan. Taiwan is in danger of being delivered into China’s grasp by stealth.”
Later on Friday, at an overflow meeting in a large Congressional committee room on Capitol Hill, John Tkacik, a former US State Department official and acknowledged expert on Taiwan, said that the last five years had not been kind to the TRA.
Many of those present — having come directly from the march from Philadelphia — could not get a seat and were forced to stand in the corridor outside listening through an open door.
Tkacik said the Obama administration was continuing the policies of former US president George W. Bush and was looking to “reach an understanding with China on Taiwan.”
“It’s not that the Obama administration has anything against Taiwan, but just because it feels it can no longer afford to maintain the capacity to resist the use of force in the Taiwan Strait,” Tkacik said.
“I think the ‘one China’ policy will go down in the history of the 21st century as perhaps the most disastrous American strategic move of the century. It is a move that has placed responsibility for the security and human rights of democratic Asia, including Taiwan, in the hands of China,” Tkacik said.
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