看到電視節目，發覺有些台灣人，把阿扁成功的外交行為當成笑話看待，以為台灣今日之不景氣之時，阿扁不好好守在國內，還出國風光，是一種不對的行為。台灣之所以有外交，才有外援，有外援才能穩定，能得到美國與日本的外交支援，方足以與中共對抗，於兩岸才可以得到對等談判的籌碼。外交是國防的延伸，自古有訓，無外交其國必亡。台灣何以經濟不景氣？其原因主要來自世界景氣衰減，另一重大因素在於國內統派、急統派團體運用豐沛的黨政、軍、財經背景行打扁的敗國之舉，其造成之非經濟因素是台灣股市崩跌，加上急速移陸投共的熱潮，進而掏空台灣資金，有密不可分的關係。

　　電視台上講來講去，就這幾個人，製造矛盾分化亦是如是些人，美國人能肯定台灣的民主成就，而台灣卻有某些人拼命製造分裂與分化，真不知台灣人追求民主自由的意義何在？我們來看看，The New York Times 的這篇報導，它談到台灣阿扁訪美國，造成大陸移民與台灣移民兩極化的正反現象，可是美國有24員國會議員專機由華盛頓趕到紐約向陳總統致意，其主要原因在於肯定民選總統的成就，與台灣民主化現象值得讚賞。由1949年國民黨退至台灣，到現在2001年，台灣的進步與民主和平轉移，令美國人難忘。

　　在國外，包括大陸移民與新台移民，彼此有不同的想法，大陸移民到美國享受民主自由，卻在感情上，希望台灣不得脫離中共的祖國統一觀念，對中華民國的阿扁總統，下意識認為阿扁只是個台灣選出的總統，不能代表中華民國；而台灣移民，則認為阿扁是台灣人選出來的總統，其代表著台灣人出頭天的意識型態，是否能代表中華民國或台灣共和國，並非十分重要。

　　中共最怕的是美國重新公開支持台灣的行動，由柯林頓扶持的中共，於其羽翼未豐之時，自然會有相當的自制，未來中共的問題絕不比台灣少。共產制度要變化到資本私有的大陸之社會主義制，必得保持相當的克制與穩定。台灣在不會攻打大陸，亦無力威脅大陸的實際狀態下，何以中共還對台灣文攻武嚇，而預設一中原則，不想與阿扁會談，是何種存心，真令人不解。

　　究其原因乃是：
１．台灣內部各擁其主，不能團結對外，大中國主義掌控台灣意識。
２．有人製造阿扁執政，台灣必亡的心理，奴化台灣人民。
３．運用媒體來炒作，阿扁失敗論，以自我恐嚇代替共赴國難。
４．台灣民主化的成熟度不足，台灣人民易受蠱惑。
５．黑金大反撲，想再奪回政權。
６．泛藍軍的爭權，不以台灣人民主自由的成就為尚。
７．台灣人喪失知足惜福的刻苦耐勞精神，不知自我反省。
８．親中派立委的巧於運作，欺騙台灣人民，無所不用其詐。
９．製造假民意，企圖影響民心。
１０．舊官僚體系的隱性對抗，缺乏一體同舟的概念。
１１．中共對台統戰的大勝利，由分化台灣內部團結開始。

　　布希總統看出來台灣的危機，在於美國前總統柯林頓的炒作中共而冷卻台灣，而於台灣新政權轉移時，台灣若是還不斷受到美國冷落，台灣的阿扁政權，必然空有民主自由之美譽，而終會敗於強大中共壓力，而台灣之附共、好共、促統，必因此而順利行事，台灣不久會成為反美第一線，以致於民主的價值，成為國際的笑柄。尼克森以來所追求美國民主種子，因美中建交而會使生根的中國民主生根的神話，將是全盤皆失，現在不但中共強盛足以抗衡美國，而台灣人追求的民主自由亦將淪亡。

　　所以布希會明言 "do whatever it took to defend Taiwan"，無論如何會保衛台灣並非無因。看 The New York Times 全文：

 

Taiwan Leader Greeted in U.S. With Protests and Warmth

May 22, 2001
By SARAH KERSHAW

he Taiwanese president, Chen Shui-bian, arrived in New York to fanfare and some protests last night, welcomed by local and Congressional politicians and by a Chinese community divided over his visit.

It was the first time a leader of Taiwan had visited the city. And as Mr. Chen made his way from Taipei to Midtown Manhattan, Taiwanese and mainland Chinese immigrants in the city found themselves drawn into the longstanding international dispute over Taiwan.

Mr. Chen, the leader of an island of 22 million people that Beijing considers a renegade province, met last night with about two dozen members of Congress at the Waldorf- Astoria and was scheduled to meet today with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who planned to give him a key to the city in a closed-door ceremony with the trappings usually due a head of state.

The United States does not recognize Taiwan as a country, and its status has been the focus of sometimes sharp dispute between the United States and China, ever since the Nationalist Chinese leaders fled there in 1949 after the Communist takeover. Most recently, President Bush seemed to take the policy a step further by saying the United States would do whatever it took to defend Taiwan, but he qualified his remarks later by saying Taiwan should not declare independence or provoke a Chinese attack.

To the thousands of Chinese immigrants who live and work in relative peace with one another in New York, largely in Chinatown and Flushing, Queens, Mr. Chen's arrival has fueled a prickly debate between those with roots on Taiwan and those from mainland China. These days, the two groups have been at odds, arguing inside restaurant kitchens and on buses and subways, or trading political barbs across the pages of the city's Chinese-language newspapers.

"I am calm," said William Wu, a chef who came to Flushing from Taiwan 13 years ago and works with waiters from Beijing at a restaurant in Hicksville, on Long Island. "But the people from mainland China, it's very hard for them to be calm."

Calm was not the prevailing sentiment last night when Mr. Chen arrived about 6:30 p.m. and was whisked into the Waldorf-Astoria, his wife, who uses a wheelchair, by his side. Outside the hotel were about 1,000 supporters along Park Avenue at 50th Street, waving the green and white flag of the Democratic Progressive Party, and shouting "Long live Taiwan!"

On another corner, at 49th and Park, stood the pro-China demonstrators, numbering about 500 but making more noise, shouting, "Defeat independence!" and waving the gold and red Chinese flag.

George Hua, an organizer of the pro-China rally, who immigrated from mainland China in 1968, lives in Manhattan and works as a translator at the United Nations, was running up and down Park Avenue with a megaphone, urging the protesters to chant louder.

"We Chinese have our political wisdom," Mr. Hua said during a break. "We don't need anyone interfering."

Several members of Congress stopped in the hotel lobby to speak to reporters after meeting with Mr. Chen.

"In this country, we come from all parts of the world, every race, every religion, and there's one thing that ties us together," said Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican. "And that's a love of liberty and justice and democracy. We break away from that, we're breaking away from our own roots. Tonight we are reaffirming what America stands for by being here to welcome President Chen, the democratically elected president," he said, drawing out the syllables of the last three words.

In yesterday's World Journal, the largest and most influential Chinese- language daily newspaper in the city, two advertisements appeared, each staking a position on Mr. Chen's visit and the Taiwan question. A full-page advertisement, on Page 7, welcomed him, and a half-page advertisement, on Page 9, denounced the visit and accused the Taiwanese leadership of using his New York stopover as a backhanded way of achieving a closer relationship with Washington.

Taiwan has sent thousands of immigrants to New York City over the last 35 years, and its president is a much-admired figure to the Taiwanese here. The 50-year-old Mr. Chen, who grew up on a farm and is viewed by many Taiwanese as a charismatic populist, is something of a hero, even to those who have not returned home since arriving.

The Nationalist Party, the political successor of the government that fled the Communists in 1949 under Chiang Kai-shek, controlled the Taiwanese government until Mr. Chen was elected last year. His race was so hotly contested that many Taiwanese watched it closely.

To immigrants here from mainland China, particularly those still loyal to the Chinese government, Mr. Chen's stop in New York is yet another affront, a diplomatic dig with a New York twist. And Mayor Giuliani's ceremonial greeting of Mr. Chen, and his plan to declare support for an independent Taiwan, worries them.

"I think it's not wise to provoke either side," said a computer scientist, Min Wang, who came to Jersey City five years ago from mainland China. "It could cause some serious international problems."

While Mr. Chen's activities last night and today, including a stop later today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, are closed to reporters, his foray into the city appears to be anything but low key.

It seems that no matter how sensitive the situation, there is no room for subtlety in New York City.