Taiwan Tati Cultural and Educational Foundation

A dismal missile test where six of 19 missiles failed left Ma Ying-jeou, president of the Republic of China in-exile, sheepish at the test site.  Ma called for better training but the missile failures may indicate a larger problem.

The failed missile test had one spectacular failure which almost came back down on the launch pad but crashed harmlessly into the nearby ocean.  The missile tests closely followed China’s test flight of a new, large stealth fighter capable of striking Taiwan.

My purpose in proposing the idea of a “constitutional consensus” is to get everyone talking about how to keep focused on Taiwan while steadily developing cross-strait relations. The idea is to replace the “one China” principle and establish an “overlapping constitutional consensus” within Taiwan. With respect to cross-strait relations, the goal is to replace the notion of “one China, with each side having its own interpretation” with “each side having its own constitutional interpretation.”