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A nation, a democracy
kidnapped by the KMT
By James Wang ¤ý´º¥°
In defiance of democracy and public opinion, deep-blue forces advocate that
there is only one China and eventual unification is inevitable, that the
Republic of China (ROC) Army and the People¡¦s Liberation Army (PLA) are both
China¡¦s armies, that cross-strait relations are domestic affairs involving
international factors and that without the ROC Constitution it would be very
difficult to advance cross-strait relations. These dark-blue opinions display a
kidnapper mentality.
The deep-blue supporters mainly come from the Chinese Nationalist Party¡¦s (KMT)
Huang Fu-hsing (¶À´_¿³) branch, a special branch of the KMT whose members are
military veterans or their family members. The implied meaning of the name is
¡§descendants of the Yan and Yellow emperors; revive China.¡¨ From its inception,
Huang Fu-hsing consisted mostly of key players from the army¡¦s KMT party
headquarters, popularly known as the Wang Shih-kai (¤ý®v³Í) headquarters, which had
an even more imperial ring to it and was specifically established to ensure
loyalty to the party. They fled to Taiwan together with Chiang Kai-shek (½±¤¶¥Û),
proudly carrying the anti-communist banner, eventually became the rulers of
Taiwan, and rapidly rose in rank and status. Now, as they approach old age, they
wish to abduct Taiwan and accept China¡¦s annexation of the nation.
Leading a delegation to Beijing last month, Hsu Li-nung (³\¾ú¹A), a retired general
and former director of the General Political Warfare Department who once taught
us to hate the ¡§Chinese bandits,¡¨ told a forum that ¡§unification is the common
goal of both sides of the Taiwan Strait.¡¨
He also said: ¡§Taiwan¡¦s desire to retake the mainland, to restore its territory
[to the ROC], and especially to unify China in accordance with Sun Yat-sen¡¦s
(®]¶h¥P) Three Principles of the People is also an attempt to achieve national
unification.¡¨
Give me a break. On what basis do the elderly members of Huang Fu-hsing claim
the Taiwanese desire to retake China and seek ¡§national unification¡¨? As diehard
ROC loyalists, why do these old men not simply say the ROC and Chiang seek to
retake China? Absorbing the support of just about anyone they could get their
hands on to help them keep up a semblance of legitimacy, the KMT engaged in
divisive colonial rule for quite a long time, but who among these people that
the single-party state elitists believe to be substandard actually sing the same
tune as the old men of Huang Fu-hsing?
When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) defeated the KMT in China, Chiang and
acting president Lee Tsung-jen (§õ©v¤¯), were both forced to flee China. Both of
them clearly understood that Taiwan was not legally part of China. However,
President Ma Ying-jeou (°¨^¤E), a second-generation KMT refugee, uses the fact
that a few Taiwanese ¡§representatives¡¨ participated in the establishment of the
ROC Constitution as a pretext for forcibly hijacking Taiwan based on this
Constitution and returning us to the dead-end ¡§one China¡¨ of the Chinese Civil
War era.
The civil war that took place between the KMT and the CCP had absolutely nothing
to do with Taiwan, yet Taiwan was still somehow sacrificed for this specific
war. The regime of the two Chiangs essentially hijacked Taiwan in an attempt to
retake the mainland and restore it to the ROC. Ma and the rest of the deep-blue
Mainlanders have hijacked Taiwan and are about to accept China¡¦s annexation ¡X
and what an anti-democratic evil they are in the process of committing.
During Taiwan¡¦s Martial Law era, we suffered the tragedy of the persecuted as we
were coerced into yelling their slogans about ¡§retaking the mainland.¡¨ On the
other hand, if we freely choose now to betray ourselves in our own democracy, we
are simply digging our own grave.
James Wang is a media commentator.
TRANSLATED BY KYLE JEFFCOAT
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