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162 Taiwan Development Perspectives 2009 China or Chinese. Gong-he-guo means “Republic.” Taiwan’s official title is Zhong-hua min-guo, whose English name is the “Republic of China,” abbreviated ROC. Min-guo, in fact, is semantically the same as gong-he-guo; and Zhong-hua min-guo is the name Dr. Sun Yat-sen gave the republic he founded in 1912. Moreover, there is little semantic difference between Zhong-hua min-guo and Zhong-hua ren-min gong-he-guo, which is the official title of the People’s Republic of China in Chinese. Both have the same min, which means people; and Zhong-hua min-guo could have been translated into English as the People’s Republic of China. Wang also told Lin the People’s Republic did not want Taiwan to join either as a dominion or as a free state, simply because Tibet and Xinjiang might demand the same status. Wang said Deng was afraid the world might think Taiwan had conquered the People’s Republic to reunify the Chinese nation as ROC. A much more self-confident People’s Republic under Hu Jintao has no such fear. At least a well-known Chinese economist has suggested that Beijing adopt a revised “one country, two systems” formula for Taiwan in Chinese reunification. Lu De, the eldest son of the late reform-minded vice premier Lu Dinyi, wants Beijing to consider a federation or confederation with Taiwan. The formula Den Xiaoping applied to Hong Kong and Macao can never be accepted by Taiwan, which wants “one country, two governments.” Lu De, a board member of Beijing’s semi-official China Council for Promoting Peaceful Reunification, hopes Beijing and Taipei will eventually form a confederation, which differs little from a Chinese commonwealth, to reflect the realities that now exist across the Taiwan Strait. He described his suggestion as a personal view to spark discussion and find the least costly solution for peaceful unification; but as a “princeling,” one of the privileged offspring of China’s political elite, he has close ties with Beijing’s leadership. kingdom to humble itself before a small kingdom so that it may make that small kingdom “its prize.” “And if a small kingdom humbles itself before a great kingdom, it shall win over that great kingdom,” he teaches. “Thus,” he concludes, “the one humbles itself in order to attain, the other attains because it is humble. If the great kingdom has no further desire than to bring men together and to nourish them, the small kingdom will have no further desire than to enter the service of the other. But in order that both may have their desire, the great one must learn humility.” Beijing seems to have learned humility. It is up to Taiwan to humble itself as a small state, which it is, to win over its giant neighbor into a new Chinese commonwealth of nations. One step Taipei can take now is to initiate dialogue for a peace treaty between Taiwan and China. Both President Ma and his Chinese counterpart Hu have gone on the record by saying they hope to sign such an agreement. The difficulty lies in the fact that a treaty has to be signed between independent, sovereign states and then ratified by due process of law; and so far the People’s Republic officially regards Taiwan as one of its provinces. Here is where the ruling Kuomintang can play the pivotal role. The Kuomintang can take the initiative to negotiate the peace accord with the Chinese Communist Party. It will not be difficult, for the KMT-CCP forum is meeting twice a year. The treaty can be signed between the two parties. All that the Kuomintang has to do after the signing is to initiate a referendum on the accord. When it is passed by the referendum, the treaty becomes the law of the land through the due process of ratification. Laozi or Lao Tzu in his Tao Te Ching or Daodejing (Treatise on the Tao and Its Power) urges a great
Stabilizing the Triangle: A Personal View from Taipei 163 Stabilizing the Triangle: A Personal View from Taipei TENG, Charles Abstract The coming April will mark the 30 th anniversary of the enactment of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA). This U.S. Congressional ingenuity has served the Washington’s policy toward Taiwan well through seven consecutive administrations. It has also contributed significantly to the peace and stability in the Western Pacific. However, in the past eight years Taipei’s relations with Beijing and Washington were in turmoil owing to Chen Shui-bian’s incomprehensible behavior in undermining the two most important basic factors of this triangular relationships: Stability and predictability. A new chapter has opened when new administrations came to power in Taipei and Washington. The peaceful development of the cross-Strait relations received highly positive response and encouragements. Meanwhile, Washington renews its commitments to Taipei and TRA has been reaffirmed. The U.S. policy consistency has remained intact. To ensure the stability of the peaceful development in the Taiwan Strait, all sides of the triangle should respond to any attempt or act by some political forces to utilize the TRA as a convenient vehicle to achieve their unilateral goal to alter the status quo.
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