China's miscalculations increasing

[dArKeR]

I had the honor to take part in the massive street demonstration on March 26. As someone who is from the People's Republic of China, I stood by my friends in Taiwan's media to send our message to the whole world, protesting against China's passing of the "Anti-Secession" Law. The protesters who flooded into Taipei from across the country clearly showed Taiwan's mainstream opinion.

Beijing originally placed its hope on those pan-blue camp supporters. Never did it expect that the Taiwanese people's reaction to the law would be so strong. It misjudged Taiwan's mainstream opinion again, thereby putting itself at a disadvantage. To avoid humiliation in the face of the massive demonstration, Chinese authorities have employed a dual tactic to influence the expression of Taiwan's public opinion.

On March 25, the Hong Kong-based China News Agency quoted insiders as saying that those drafting and brought in to advise on the law agreed that Article 9, which states that "the state shall do its utmost to protect the lives, property and other legitimate rights and interests of Taiwan civilians and foreign nationals in Taiwan, and to minimize losses," implies a rejection of the use of nuclear weapons by the People's Liberation Army. The report also claimed that Chinese authorities and the military had already reached a consensus on this.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2005/04/05/2003249213

[Lexingtonian]

1. nice article

A little clunky in the way it has to obey conventions and respect pieties the readers hold, but interesting. I would have thought Beijing has the electorate and popular opinion in Taiwan far better studied than seems the case. Very crude threats and great bungling on sensibilities indeed. Must be quite a cultural chasm.

[dArKeR]

2. It all comes down to all the people in civil and military positions for

the last 50 years were family of mainland chinese who invaded TW as they escaped from China, the KMT. Formosans, (Tawanese), after the educated were assassinated, were not give any positions. The KMT just called Formosa, China. So you have the truth, Taiwanese had their land and country stolen by the KMT. The Taiwanese are very educated people and realize there's the big mess with a Communist Gangster, being built by American Corporations, so the Taiwanese just want to find some kind of peaceful solution so that's why Pres. Chen made a deal with Soong. The KMT are nothing but NeoNazi Delay Republicans.

Taiwan is the friendliest country on Earth. Go visit and see for yourself.

[teryang]

3. Chinese miscalculations?

<The Anti-Secession Law, tailor-made by Chinese President Hu Jintao (ŒÓ‹ÑŸ·), has also been denounced by the international community. Among the countries condemning the law were the US and Japan, who had already identified security in the Taiwan Strait as their "common strategic objective" in the US-Japan Joint Declaration on Security to restrain China from waging war in the Asia-Pacific region. >

The public pronoucement by Japan that it was accepting the US defined security perimeter was a miscalculation. They are accepting initiatives from the neo-con group which seeks to roll back mainland influence at a time when American power in east Asia is slipping due to other huge geo-political miscalculations elsewhere.