Dear Mr. President Bill Clinton,
Mr. Vice President Al Gore,
Mrs. Madeleine Korbel Albright,
Mr. Trent Lott,
Mr. Denny Hastert,
Mr. Prime Minister John Howard,
How China responds at this time?
A. Communist China massive anti-America demonstrations
over the Embassy bombing, leading to the stoning of the U.S. Embassy
in Beijing.
B. It seizes a Taiwanese ship near the island of Matsu, accusing
its crew of "smuggling".
C. It flies more than a hundred menacing sorties over the Taiwan
Strait.
D. It denies the United States landing rights for military plane
in Hong Kong.
E. It launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, with range
designed to reach the United States.
F. It sentences two human rights activists to long prison terms
(a total of seven sentenced since the Embassy bombing).
G. It launches a massive crackdown on the Falun Gong sect, a peaceful
semi-mystical movement in China that the regime has decided to eradicate.
Communism is dead in mainland China, but the Chinese communist
party is not. It clings to authoritarian role, aware that political
reform is necessary, yet fearful that opening up the political process
to mass participation might lead to its demise.
Beijing's leader know that their survival does not merely depend
on their ability to keep the economy from faltering further ---
a momentous task in itself because it entails overhauling the state
sector and creating jobs for the huge numbers of unemployed. Disgruntled
citizens seek more than economic security. They want to live in
a society free of corruption and the arbitrary use of power.
What we have known today, a ruthless party dictatorship, communist
in name only, savagely bent on maintaining its own power against
all opposition. United States keeps feeding the Chinese economy
and propping up over our much-touted "strategic partnership".
It will soften China's internal repression, that is no more true
than that American appeasement is softening China's external aggressiveness.
Clearly, China is determined to modernize its military
forces, including its missile forces and nuclear capabilities to
challenge U.S. military dominance in the pacific.
The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army knows that its military capabilities
are currently no match to America's. But as its military might increase.
The Chinese regime will no doubt threaten the peace and stability
in the Taiwan Strait and act more assertively to menace U.S. interests
in the region. That is why the bipartisan Taiwan Security
Enhancement Act is needed. The measure would increase
cooperation between the U.S. and Taiwanese armed forces. In turn,
the cooperation would deter Chinese threats against Taiwan and in
the long term enhance security in the Asia-pacific region.
Mainland China has illegally seized a Taiwan ship, send jet fighters
provocatively across the Taiwan Strait, repeatedly hurled threats
at Taiwan and its elected President and test fired a new ballistic
missile built in part with stolen U.S technology. It also has cracked
down on a peaceful spiritual sect, rounding up hundreds of members
for some old fashioned communist "re-education", and has
sentenced democracy activists to terms of eight and nine years (or
more) in prison on charges of "subverting state power".
On the other hand, the mainland China have made clear
a sensitivity to the different system that exists on Taiwan. If
"one China, two systems" was working in Taiwan, most
of Taiwanese people is dissident and Taiwan army and military force
would be charged by Beijing as "subverting state power"
need "re-education" "wash-brain" and then migrated
to battle zone of mainland.
Taiwan wasn't a colony have army and free entity, accustomed to
democratic system, free talks and respect human rights, its very
difference with Hong Kong...
A Canadian newspaper on Thursday (August 5, 1999) called on the
west to stop kowtowing to Beijing by humiliating Taiwan, whose
democracy may be new and not perfect but whose dissidents do not
have to worry about being thrown in jail or "re-education camps".
So, Taiwan needs your support.
