Idea for Unification

I suggested a couple of times that, for the sake of unification, one step that could be taken would be to allow the Republic of China, which now governs only Taiwan and a few islands, to govern the mainland's Fujian province. A long time ago, Taiwan was governed as part of Fujian. Now the ROC includes their two islands Kinmen and Matsu as part of Fujian province. What better way to slow down the move toward Taiwan independence than to increase the ROC's size and territory. The people for Taiwan Independence seek to give to islands near the mainland to the PRC as part of Taiwan setting up a Republic of Taiwan. One reason that the CCP never tried to get the islands after the end of the fighting in 1949 is because they knew that without these islands it made Taiwan seem more like Taiwan alone rather than the alternative government of China. The CCP didn't want the KMT running Taiwan but they liked the idea of a Republic of Taiwan even less than a competitor government that shared the same view of Taiwan as an integral and permanent part of China.

I was suprised and happy to then see a similar proposal from a mainlander. This proposal even suggested that the ROC be given another province. The author also suggested other ways for Taiwan to influence mainland affairs. I will present it below. To point out that this author is not simply a KMT sympathizer he did also post a scenario whereby the mainland takes Taiwan by threatening it and giving it an ultimatum before the attack comes. I won't be posting that scenario.

Can LTH gain support from mainland Chinese?

Personally, I do not like LTH because of his last year's pragmatic foreign policy, which irritated the majority of Chinese inside the mainland and overseas. If he continues his current policy, there is no doubt that he will be described as another Wang Jin Wei in the future's history book. Can LTH change his future image by himself? There are certainly many ways LTH can do, even can change all mainland Chinese oppion to him. First of all, Lee should give up his pragmatic foreign policy, instead, he should focus his policy on mainland people. With the economic strength in Taiwan, if Lee uses it wisely, Taiwan goverment can play a big rule in mainland affairs. The followings are certain steps.

(1) Set up 1000 new universities across the mainland by fundings from Taiwan. All the faculties can come from those Chinese students now studying in US and Canada. They can bring western idea, advanced technology, and kindness of LTH government to people in mainland. Currently, there are about 1000 universities in Mainland China. Only 5% young people has the chance to get education in college. There are far more people wishing to get higher education in China. I am sure PRC govermnent will not frankly refuse to accept helping its education system. Those people getting chance to college will not forget the help from Tainwan. It is not a heavy burden for LTH government to find budget to start this program. By educating more and more people on mainland, KMT and other parties in Taiwan will have chance to enter mainland again. That most oversea Chinese students support PRC does not mean they support one party government system, they wish changes steadily; that they hate LTH does not mean they hate the whole KMT party, they still wish to see KMT and other parties in Taiwan can get involved in China and help to make China better and better.

(2) Choose 2 provinces in Mainland and use the experiences developed in Taiwan to develop these two provinces. Fujian and Inner Mongolia will be two good choice. Fujian is close to Taiwan, and there are already a lot of business connection between two places. Inner Mongolia is located in North part of China, it riches in energy and various minerals which are rare in Taiwan. Taiwan can build up a direct railway or highway to connect these two provinces. This transportation will have to pass other provinces, but companys' from Taiwan will have the full right to operate it. Many people in mainland will be benifit from this transportation. Taiwan will have a direct market wihich is three times of that in Taiwan. With its Capital, technology, and management experience, Taiwan can set a good model in these two provinces around China. I am sure if this project starts, millions of people in other part of China will try to migrate to these two provinces. Will PRC goverment agree this project? NEGOTIATE! The current situation is that LTH government simply refuses any high level negotiation with PRC. There is definitely a win-win road for both sides.

(3) Under certain kinds of compromises, circulate Taiwanese newspapers in mainland. It is true that the PRC government will ban the Taiwanese newspapers if the Taiwanese nespapers constantly say Deng Xiao Ping is dead, Communist is evil, Commnuist leaders are dictators, ect.. If you read today's newsparpers from mainland, very few articles attack or uglify issues in Taiwan except the independent related affairs. I have the chance to access many newspapers from Taiwan. It looks to me the languages in Taiwan's newspapers still remain as in 1970s. This is why certain kinds of compromises have to be reached.

By involving Education, Economic, and Media deeply in mainland, Taiwan would sooner or later re-gain what it losed in 1949. By giving up pragmatic foreign policy, Taiwan may lose some prestiges in international community. However, in 20 years, KMT or other parties in Taiwan may be elected as the excutive party

by Rushkin (the author's psuedonym on the NY Times forum)

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