Under the pressure from Beijing, Taiwan insisted
toward democracyIn a move symbolizing the ruling party's
attempts to distance itself with its dictatorial past, President Lee Teng-hui said (Dec.
11, 1999) he may grant a presidential pardon to the political activists who were
imprisoned for their participation in the Formosa incident. Former Taipei mayor and
Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Chen Shui-bian is the most popular
personality among Taiwan's college and university students, according to a nationwide
survey released Dec. 11, 1999.
Beijing has never concealed its goal to take Taiwan by force that the
failure to put the Cross-Taiwan Strait issue on the agenda of regional or international
security forums is worrisome.
Asked why Beijing would not renounce force, a leading Communist Party member Li Ruihuan
said (Dec. 13, 1999) on visiting Japan.
A. No Chinese leader nor any generation of the Chinese leadership has the
right to discard Taiwan from its motherland.
B. If anybody persists in going his own way to segment Taiwan from the map of China in
disregard of the desire of the Taiwan Strait for peaceful reunification, prosperity and
development. We will have no other choice.
China views Taiwan as a renegade province and strongly objects to any description of the
island as a state, taking it as an attack on its insistent claim of sovereignty.
In my personally opinion, the truth of Beijing would not renounce force
Taiwan, is Beijing's military power can destroy Taiwan defense, it despite the democratic
reality of Taiwan situation. History would change, Taiwanese people wanted to sit together
for peaceful consultation over equal position.
