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KMT fails the Tibet
test
We are once again faced with an incongruous Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) that
has run Taiwan for the past four years like a subsidiary of the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP), protests to the contrary notwithstanding.
We need look no further than President Ma Ying-jeouˇ¦s (°¨^¤E) administrationˇ¦s
oafish treatment of Tibetans and Uighurs and other oppressed peoples in China to
see this. How else can the government justify its silence (and in some respect,
approbation) in the face of genocide, if not because the KMT respects and
admires Chinaˇ¦s heavy-handed methods for dealing with dissent?
I can understand the failure of US President Barack Obama to stridently confront
China over these issues as he should (although certainly not to excuse in the
least the complete failure of a supposed Nobel laureate to lead the world as US
president on these imperative and urgent issues), considering his current overly
timid US policy on China.
However, what excuse can the KMT give, other than to proclaim that Tibet and
Xinjiang are part of China and ˇ§splittismˇ¨ and dissent are not acceptable?
How can Taiwan fulfill its supposed key role in the world of serving as an
example to China of all that is good, democratic and free if the KMT does not
confront China about its human rights violations and the CCPˇ¦s long term plans
to eradicate Tibetan and Uighur culture, language and peoples? Maˇ¦s insipid
occasional statements about these things are neither convincing nor effective.
Does the KMT not understand that Tibet and Xinjiang, Falun Gong and Chinese
dissidents and activists serve as reminders to Taiwan of what the CCP has in
store for it down the road when the KMT negotiates its supposed (and false)
peace with China?
Of course not. In fact, Ma has refused to differentiate himself from the CCP so
much so that it appears that the KMT and CCP are one, and we can no longer tell
where one ends and the other begins.
Why else would the KMT admire China so much? I suspect it is because the KMT
accepts the CCPˇ¦s methods, and we might expect after the KMTˇ¦s unification with
China ˇX which is the heartfelt goal of the hardcore KMT members ˇX a regression
to the days of martial law and tyranny and the eradication of everything
Taiwanese, just like the KMTˇ¦s brother, the CCP, has served up to the Chinese
every day for the past 63 years.
Lee Long-hwa
New York
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