Well, what a surprise. KMT chairman Ma Ying-jeou still doesn't get democracy. During his summit with President Chen Shui-bian, Mr. Ma called on the president to agree to the 1992 "one China consensus".
I guess Mr. Ma is still living in the fantasy world of 1947. This so-called "consensus" has never been agreed to by the Taiwanese people - it was an agreement between the authoritarian Chinese Communist party and the authoritarian Kuomintang.
Besides, this "one China" that Mr. Ma clings to, is it the Republic of China that still rules over the mainland and Mongolia? Is it the "one China" that pretends the People's Republic of China doesn't exist? It seems that Mr. Ma needs a reality check: Taiwan and China are two separate nations, with distinct cultures and vastly different national structures. Why force unification between them?
If Chairman Ma really believed in democracy, then he would realize that the Taiwanese people never consented to a "one China" policy, and that the future of Taiwan belongs in the hands of the Taiwanese people - not the KMT old guard.
