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What Arrogant Darkness Still Remains in the Hearts of Many KMT?

Jerome F. Keating Ph.D.

Who has not wondered at the twisted minds of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)? How they could easily inflict 2/28, the White Terror and Martial Law on Taiwanese simply because they wanted to maintain their one-party state? Who has not wondered at what arrogant darkness filled certain KMT hearts that they could order and sanction the high profile murders in the 1980s, Chen Wen-cheng, Henry Liu and especially the Lin family children? Who has not hoped that after Taiwan won its democracy, the KMT might finally have changed? Unfortunately arrogance dies hard, and even though the KMT can no longer openly insist on its sense of entitlement and privilege, the arrogance remains. It cannot remain hidden.

Alive and well? Look again

Jerome Keating

Dennis Hickey’s piece indicates that he may need to leave Missouri and get a little updating on what has been happening in Taiwan and Asia in the past decades (“ROC is alive and well in Taiwan,” March 21, page 8).

It is questionable that the world will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the revolution that “overthrew the Qing Dynasty and led to the establishment of the Republic of China [ROC].”

Certainly, the 1.3 billion people in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) will celebrate on Oct. 1 — the anniversary of the PRC’s establishment — rather than the ROC’s Double Ten National Day on Oct. 10.

Could Taiwan be the next Japan?

Engelbert Altenburger 古堡

The cataclysm In Japan has affected the whole of humanity. The devastating impact upon the world’s most densely populated and sophisticated nation, which was the first to experience the atrocities of the atomic bomb, released a deluge of biblical proportion and has stoked fears of doomsday, as if to fulfill popular prophecies — Nostradamus, the Mayan calendar, Yisrayl Hawkins, etc.

Reports on this cataclysm are mortifying: the seismic movement along an active fault line and resultant massive earthquake; the significant upsurge of the sea floor, creating tsunami waves both directly submerging the coastal plains of northeastern Honshu and traveling across the Pacific Ocean as far as California’s coastline; the total destruction of agricultural land and towns; the danger of nuclear reactors and their deadly failures; the spread of lethal radiation; snow and ice; hunger and privation; the blackouts in Tokyo’s 35 million metropolis; the chaos; the worldwide shock; the exodus.

What about Taiwan?

Sophia Solivio

In a recent article, Dennis Hickey claimed that: “On Oct. 10, the world will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty and led to the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC)” and “that Taipei is gearing up to commemorate the uprising with a series of major events” on Monday (“ROC is alive and well in Taiwan,” March 21, page 8).

At this stage of Taiwan’s democratic development, only the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), the People First Party, the New Party and the US should celebrate the misnomer that is the ROC government.

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