To Love Taiwan with Veritable Truth, Rationality and Seek a New Cross-Strait Consensus Series Part 1: Erecting Four Consensuses for Loving Taiwan
2017/06/08
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To Love Taiwan with Veritable Truth, Rationality and Seek a New Cross-Strait Consensus Series Part 1:
Erecting Four Consensuses for Loving Taiwan
China Times Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan, ROC)
June 4, 2017
Translation of an Except
Loving Taiwan is the consensus of all 23 million people in Taiwan, but a consensus has never been galvanized on how to love Taiwan, even becoming an ignition point and ammunition for rivals in struggle. In order to develop a cross-Strait consensus, a consensus for loving Taiwan must first be erected. The following four consensuses should be the common denominator.
The first is an anti-Taiwan independence consensus. The greatest crisis in current Taiwan is the escalating cross-Strait confrontation and the impossibility of having mutual trust between the Red and Green because Taiwan independence is the biggest barrier. Even the common folks know that from the past, present, to the future, given the reality of the huge disparity in cross-Strait strengths under international politics, Taiwan independence is not only impossible to realize, any attempt to fulfill it would bring Taiwan nothing but calamitous disaster.
The second is the identity consensus, in other words a consensus that "I am Taiwanese and Chinese; Taiwanese are Chinese." With the exception of aborigines and new immigrants, whether Minnan folks, Hakkas, or people from other provinces, they are all 100% Chinese based on history, culture, bloodline, religion, and language. When Mainland President Xi Jinping said that "the two sides of the Strait are one family," it was not political rhetoric, but a historical fact.
The third is the national title consensus. Both sides of the Strait are "Chinese" and both are also "China." The word "Chinese" stresses cultural connotations, referring to the Chinese nation and Chinese culture; while the word "China" stresses political connotations. For the Mainland, this "state" refers to the "People's Republic of China"; for Taiwan, it refers to the "Republic of China"; "China" is the country jointly shared by both sides of the Strait.
When the three above consensuses are reached, the last goal of consensus is the consensus of integration, in other words, a consensus referring to the process of achieving reunification through integration. More importantly, the consensus is not only the internal consensus in Taiwan, it may also be a cross-Strait consensus, dissolving cross-strait divergences and beneficial to Taiwan moving towards stability from turbulence and endless disputes, galvanizing the momentum for joint development.
Without consensuses, there is no momentum to move forward. At this point in time, establishing four consensuses is the crucial first step for Taiwan to make a new move and for Taiwan to rise again.
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