July 22, 2023
Editor’s introduction
I believe there is great confusion in the minds of many Westerners about Taiwan, its relation to China and the US’s real Taiwan policy. TFF has written about some of it in our Smokescreen Report here but you may also like to read this Wikipedia entry about the 1992 Consensus – and its problems – as well as the Chou Enlai-Nixon talks and agreements in February 1972 here and here.
I would like, therefore, to recommend the article below by Terry Gou – a very successful Taiwanese businessman and politician who here promotes a peace and win-win perspective in contrast to his own government leadership and the Biden administration. Interestingly, it was published by The Washington Post (on July 17, 2023). Click!
Jan Oberg, TFF director and editor
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Well, yes – but it is probably more meaningful – here at The Transnational – to comment on the article than on the comments to it.
I notice that a lot of comments in the WP article raise the point about Hong Kong losing its freedom. This does not surprise me as most WP readers are ignorant bigots.
Hong Kong did not lose its freedom. Hong Kong’s semi-autonomous status from 1997 is fully intact. Beijing enacted the national security law only because Hong Kong’s LegCo failed to do so (as required by Basic Law) over the past quarter century.