Sorry tommy, I can’t fully agree.
It seems like a fine effort at a story, but any look at the Taiwanese situation which dates before April 2005 is fatally flawed. Lien Chan and James Soong’s visits to mainland China were an inflection point in cross-strait affairs (d2x/dx2 > 0). The visits, in and of themselves, didn’t translate into much immediate impact on the ground. But they represented a new trend in a cross-strait cooperation, and we’ll see the cumulative effect over the next 8 years.
I honestly believe that 50 years from now, my grand-kids will be learning about the 2005 visits in their history books.
[quote=“cctang”]Sorry tommy, I can’t fully agree.
It seems like a fine effort at a story, but any look at the Taiwanese situation which dates before April 2005 is fatally flawed. Lien Chan and James Soong’s visits to mainland China were an inflection point in cross-strait affairs (d2x/dx2 > 0). The visits, in and of themselves, didn’t translate into much immediate impact on the ground. But they represented a new trend in a cross-strait cooperation, and we’ll see the cumulative effect over the next 8 years.
I honestly believe that 50 years from now, my grand-kids will be learning about the 2005 visits in their history books.[/quote]
Yes I think the new thinking that emerged from this visit will set the tone for the new era.
Hopefully anyway. A tone of peace and co-operation.
I think the video has incriminating evidence against CSB bribing 20,000 people in his village with red envelopes.
I just find it interesting all the Taiwanese that can speak English in the video are apprehensive about CSB foreign policy direction. Must be the anti-love Taiwan propaganda in all non-Taiwanese languages.