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Chinese legislation will have no impact on this country, DPP legislator insists

Taiwan does not need to fear or overreact to Beijing's proposed enactment of an "anti-secession" law, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Lin Cho-shui (林濁水) said yesterday.

Arguing that Beijing does not need to pass a law to attack Taiwan and crush its independence movement, Lin told the reporters in an interview that it is simply the disapproval in the international community -- rather than any lack of a legal foundation -- that has prevented Beijing from annexing Taiwan.

Lin said that Beijing's planned passage of an "anti-secession" law reflects its discontent with Washington's Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) and that Beijing intends to use it to counter what it sees as US meddling in Taiwan's affairs, which Chinese authorities consider an internal issue.

However, Lin said that Beijing's "anti-secession" law differs from the TRA, given that the US law governs US-Taiwan ties and does not infringe upon Taiwan's sovereignty or intervene in its policymaking.

On the contrary, Beijing's "anti-secession" law is drafted with the aim of seeking to dictate Taiwan's policymaking and frame Taiwanese affairs as a domestic issue of China, Lin said.

But he asserted that Beijing will have no say over Taiwan's rejection of the law, as Taiwan is not a part of China.

Therefore, he said, there is no need for Taiwan to fear or overreact to it, since international objections to Beijing's use of force against Taiwan will not disappear just because of a new piece of legislation.

He also urged the Taiwanese people to air their opposition to Beijing's scheme to alter the status quo across the Taiwan Strait.

Beijing is expected to enact the law later this month, despite peace gestures extended by Taiwanese authorities and successful direct cross-strait flights during the Lunar New Year.
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