Tsai Ing-wen

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Tsai Ing-wen

Taiwanese opposition’s candidate to the presidency of the island Tsai Ing-wen, of the Democratic Progressive Party, said on Wednesday that the treaty with China the incumbent president Ma Ying-jeou wishes to pursue will damage the sovereignty of Taiwan. She said that the China engagement program the president is fostering is setting the stage for the unification of the democratic island with the Communist mainland country.

This comment comes after the president reaffirmed his wish to pursue a peace treaty with the Chinese if re-elected in January and if the people in Taiwan support the idea.

China and Taiwan separated in 1949, when the first republic of China founded in 1912 withdrew on the island of Taiwan as a result of civil war, leaving the mainland territory to the Communist republic.

The Republic of China was the sole representative of the Chinese people by the United Nations until 1971, when the Communist regime in Beijing imposed at the Security Council Resolution 2758, by which the Republic of China was expelled from the United Nations Organization, and its place was taken by the People’s Republic of China.

Ever since, the Republic of China attempted on various occasions to become member of the UN, but every time the Chinese opposed their bid. That made the leaders in Taipei renounce their claim to be the only owners of China and the sole representatives of the Chinese people, and even to change the name of the country from the Republic of China to Taiwan.

The relations improved since president Ma took office, and China and Taiwan began a series of economic ties intended to bring them closer. Still, the possibility of the union is far, especially because of the nature of the regime that has been ruling Taiwan for decades and relies on an anti-Communist attitude.

Taiwan has been improving constantly its military capacity by buying the most advanced weapons from the Americans. However, it is believed that the country could not withstand the possibility of an invasion from the mainland China.

The Chinese authorities celebrated earlier in the month the foundation of the first Republic of China by Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Kuomintang, the nationalist party of China.

On that occasion the Chinese leaders have expressed their conviction that they were following into the footsteps of Sun Yat-sen who wanted a powerful and united China, while the Taiwanese president reminded, on the same occasion also celebrated in Taipei, that Sun was an anti-Communist and valued freedom, democracy and the correct distribution of resources to the people, the three principles the Taiwanese sing about even in their national anthem, whereas Communist China has little regard for them.

While the opposition accuses the president of wanting to unite their country, deeply rooted into democratic values, with China, the Communist party in China held a Central Committee session in which the principles of developing a new “cultural security” for China was adopted.

The guidelines of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist party speak of developing the soft power of China and the maintaining of “cultural security” by deepening the reform in the cultural system, and the promoting of cultural industry. All of these are said to be rooted into the Chinese form of socialism, an idea that would definitely not help the idea of unification with Taiwan.

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