Who's Listening to Taiwan's People?  

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Baum, Julian

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Far Eastern Economic Review vol. 172 no. 9 (Nov. 2009), page 42.
Topik: Taiwan; Ma Ying-jeou; Comprehensive Economic Framework Agreement (ECFA); China

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A decade ago, then Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou led a small band of students in a candlelight memorial for the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It was the 10th anniversary of the crackdown in Beijing, and tens of thousands were gathering in cities around the world. There was little interest in the anniversary in Taipei though. Mr. Ma was accompanied by only one other official from his party, Shaw Yu-min­­g, vice chairman of the Kuomintang, along with a dozen or so members of the party's China Youth Corps. It was characteristic of Mr. Ma, with his anticommunist leanings and his concern for China, that he showed up that evening. In the years after 1989, he was one of the rare officials in the KMT to speak publicly against the brutality of the June 4 events and in support of Chinese democracy. Since his inauguration as Taiwan's president 18 months ago, Mr. Ma's criticism of the Beijing government has gone mute. And unlike most other Taiwanese and even members of the KMT, he promotes a national identity under the label of "one China." The identity—which was dormant during his presidential election campaign, when he effusively praised the "Taiwan spirit" and submersed himself in "long stays" in the rural south of the island—has resurfaced in the past year. It has been an obvious factor in getting Beijing to sign on to agreements opening direct links across the Taiwan Strait.

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