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Chinese centennial raises question about Taiwan future

Michael Richardson

The recent centennial anniversary of the Chinese revolt that ended rule by centuries of imperial emperors was celebrated in both Beijing and Taipei. Both the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China in-exile commemorated the Wuhan uprising of October 10, 1911, which began a revolution that ended the Qing dynasty.

Both Chinese governments honored revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen and laid claim to his legacy in ceremonies in held in China and on the island of Taiwan. However, the People’s Republic of China communist regime did not come into existence until 1949 when it defeated the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China which had replaced imperial rule.

Former premier’s praise of martial law draws fire

Taipei Times

Several human rights groups yesterday released a joint statement panning former premier Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村) over his remarks on Sunday that the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) 38-year dictatorship during the Martial Law era was totally justified and that without it, Taiwan would not have become a democracy today.

Hau made the statement defending the KMT’s authoritarian rule during a rally attended by thousands of veteran soldiers at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei on Sunday to commemorate the dead dictator’s birthday yesterday.

Chinese propaganda: Fake films on self-immolation

TendarTsering

DHARAMSHALA, October 30: China has produced fake propaganda films in recent weeks where Tibetans and Tibetan officials in occupied Tibet have been forced to act and speak against the ongoing spate of self-immolations in Tibet.

Phuntsok, a 20-year old Tibetan monk from Ngaba region of Tibet who set himself on fire last March calling for freedom in Tibet and return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been ‘depicted’ in the film.

Peace agreement nothing but a trap

Paul Lin 林保華

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has hit a snag in his re-election campaign with talk of a cross-strait peace agreement revealing his intentions to “replace independence with gradual reunification.”

No one is opposed to peace, but no one wants it to come at the price of having to serve under a new dictatorial regime. Are we to suppose that we can live in peace and security if we become part of China? When we talk about cross-strait peace, it is important to keep an eye on the differences between the system we live under and that in China.

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