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Museum exhibit seen
as pro-China, source says
By Fan Cheng-hsiang and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with Staff
writer
The push by President Ma Ying-jeou¡¦s (°¨^¤E) administration to exhibit National
Palace Museum relics in Japan is widely seen as a pro-China gambit, a Taiwanese
politician who has good connections in Japanese politics said.
According to the source, who wished to remain anonymous, his Japanese politician
friends who hold a friendly attitude toward Taiwan worry that the planned
National Palace Museum overseas exhibition in Japan would become an indirect
advertisement for Chinese culture.
The exhibition ¡X planned to take place in the Tokyo National Museum from June to
September 2014 ¡X has been pushed for by the Ma administration since 2008.
Commenting on the exhibition, the Taiwanese politician said his Japanese
contacts said the artifacts at the museum had all come from China and were not
Taiwanese.
The source quoted the Japanese politicians as asking how the exhibition of
Chinese cultural artifacts would help Taiwanese-Japanese relations.
The source said the politicians said it could foster the misunderstanding that
Taiwan is a part of China and that Taiwan itself has a very rich and beautiful
culture that could be promoted instead.
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