Ma remarks could rule out US intervention: academic (Taiwan)

Taipei Times ^ | 10/14/2013 | Chen Hui-ping

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President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) statement that cross-strait relations are “not international relations” during his Double Ten National Day speech has further weakened Taiwan’s sovereignty and was meant as a hint for the US and Japan not to interfere in cross-strait issues, a local academic said.

“If by including such words in the National Day address Ma intends to make the cross-strait issue an internal matter and not open to international interference, it would cause serious repercussions in the days to come,” said Wong Ming-hsien (翁明賢), director of Tamkang University’s Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies.

Pointing to the fact that Taiwan is not a part of the UN, and the Ma administration’s inclination to make the cross-strait issue an internal issue rather than international, Wong said that in the event of a military conflict over the Taiwan Strait, neither Japan nor the US would have grounds to intervene.

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[Truth29]

Taiwan is sliding away and the US has made it plain that it would not go to war to defend its independence. The only paths that seem open are accommodation to the Chicoms or to go nuclear by acquiring the means to implement a Mutual Assured Destruction program to deter Mainland China.