Posted on 07/02/2013 12:27:05 AM PDT by TexGrill
Rejecting the term “Taiwan” as the nation’s name, former premier Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村) said yesterday that Taiwan is not an independent, sovereign nation and that unification between Taiwan and China would eventually happen.
The assertions “Taiwan is already an independent country named the Republic of China (ROC)” and “the ROC is Taiwan” are both forms of “self-depreciation,” Hau said when addressing a forum organized by the government-funded Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD).
Hau said this kind of rhetoric was a “politically motivated tactic” aimed at “fooling voters.”
“They represented a step backward for democracy and have become major obstacles to the quality of the nation’s democracy,” he said.
“Former US secretary of state Colin Powell had made it clear [when he was] in China that Taiwan is not an independent, sovereign country,” Hsu said.
However, no one in the world would say that the ROC is not a sovereign country, he added.
Hau was referring to a statement made by Powell during an interview with Phoenix TV on Oct. 25, 2004, in Beijing saying that “Our [the US’] policy is clear. There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm policy.”
The state department later explained that Powell had misspoken and said that there had been no change in US policy toward Taiwan.
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This guy is a stooge for the Chicoms. Let us pray Taiwan forever remains free from their clutches.
If there’s one thing that the Chinese Communists & Nationalists agree on it’s that there’s only one unified China, and that includes the territory of Taiwan.
But here’s the kicker: the Chinese Nationalists no longer dominate the political life of the island of Taiwan. Since the Carter Administration the US has officially supported the “One-China” policy of the mainland while the Taiwanese have gradually moved away from it as the Nationalists influence has waned. But the Taiwanese know that it’s war if they openly dump “One-China” and go for independence.
Don’t forget, it was the great anti communist,Richard Nixon, that changed our position on Taiwan.
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