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Home Editorials of Interest Jerome F. Keating's writings As the World Turns: Taiwan Politics and China

As the World Turns: Taiwan Politics and China

Ma Ying-jeou and his election campaign team are trying to lesson the DPP candidate Tsai Ing-wen about what is the proper way to advertise oneself to the electorate. Tsai had declared that she was Taiwanese indicating that she would definitely be for Taiwan if elected and having to negotiate with China on numerous matters. Ma's team objected and cried that Tsai was being devisive by saying that she was Taiwanese when running for President of Taiwan. Say what? Should we go through that once again?

Ma's team instructed the proper way was to follow him. First Ma said he was a descendant of the Yellow Emperor in blood--that is a big claim; I have seen long geneologies but this one would have to go way past 2000 years.

But despite his blood of the Yellow Emperor, Ma said he identifies with Taiwan and fights for it. Should Taiwanese take that as a compliment?

Then not to miss a base, Ma said that in nationality he is an ROC citizen and president of the ROC. That is covering just about all the bases. Maybe he should have said he once prayed with the Dalai Lama.

Speaking at a different venue, the man that is a blood line descendant of the Yellow Emperor said however, that he wants fewer visits from the PRC Chinese. A little strange for a man that bragged about opening up visits etc. but then it came out, the descendant of the Emperor wants fewer visits from the Chinese who seem to want to hug and kiss him (after all he does have the Emperor's blood) because it is election time in Taiwan and democratic Taiwanese might not look favorably on having visitors from the Emperor's country.

So the world turns, Yok Mu-ming of the New Party took a different tack; he simply said that he was Chinese, not Taiwanese but Chinese. He better hope that he is running in a blue district if he is going for elections.


Source: Jerome F. Keating's writings



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Taiwan’s top foreign affairs official in Berlin was said to have snubbed Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) during a visit there as part of her Europe trip.

A member of her delegation said Taiwan’s representative to Germany Wei Wu-lien (魏武煉) failed to meet Tsai at the airport or even give her a telephone call, actions normally considered customary for a high-profile trip by the head of the opposition party.

“I have never met this kind of overseas representative,” said Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴), the head of the DPP international affairs department that traveled with Tsai. “During this trip, the German representative was completely -indifferent to [Tsai] from start to finish.”