Please give your reason and explanation why you would oppose the unification from both China and Taiwan’s view on the matter.
Not in the near future! The political systems are incompatible. Very few Taiwanese want to be ruled by the Communists. Taiwanese are used to democracy. To unify the two sides, either China makes move towards democracy or takes over Taiwan by force.
Besides, there are geo-political struggles involved. No countries, except Singapore, want to see the re-unification of China and Taiwan because that will make China much more powerful and fearless. Japan and U.S. want to use Taiwan as a bargaining chip to rein China. The U.S. sells billions of dollars of arms and supplies to Taiwan each year. Unification means loss of business! Taiwan serves the interests of the U.S. in the western Pacific.
March 30th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Because Taiwan doesn’t want it. LOL
At some point I do expect China to "invade" Taiwan.
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March 30th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
I guess if I lived in Taiwan I wouldn’t want it. Besides that it wouldn’t really bother me.
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March 30th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
The issue is that Taiwan would be swallowed by PRC due to it’s size. Considering the diametrically opposed ideologies of the two countries neither administrations is willing to contemplate succumbing to the other.
Both currently do claim to represent the other in a childish refusal to accept reality. However a merger is unlikely in any near future.
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March 30th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Maybe, like the Hongkong Model (One China, Two Systems) but for China and Taiwan is a more complex case. It it is a matter whether the two would submit themselves for arbitration or just they talk it among themselves. Taiwan is part and parcel of China, This is the place where the Koumintang Government established their government in exile after having been overthrown in 1949. And at the moment, the UN recognises the People’s Republic of China as the duly representative of the Chinese people.
I think their reunification is deterred by the egos of the past particularly from those on the Taiwan side. Maybe it would take much more longer until all wounds have healed and forgotten.
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March 30th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
It is a crime in China to suggest that Taiwan has a right to independence, however many of it’s population want it.
The Chinese government scream that Taiwan is part of China, but avoid saying "Red China".
Bejing promises them "One Country, Two Systems", like Hong Kong, and in order to keep this offer untarnished must treat HK very warily. So HK protects Taiwan, and vice versa.
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March 30th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
A democracy being swallowed up by a communist nation is always a terrible idea. Just ask any east european nation and they’ll give you an earfull. Communism, in all it’s forms, should be on the ash heap of history. The democrats who want to bring it to the USA should all be voted out of office at the earliest opportunity. First and foremost of those is Hillary Clinton.
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March 30th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
I visited Taipei a month ago for 6 days and talked with many people. Here are my observations — may not be worth much, but I offer them anyway. As recently as 10 years ago when you bought IT, hi-fi, cameras and similar consumer gear the label "Made in Taiwan" was common. So also with mid-price clothing, Chinese foodstuff, toys, etc. Well, you know the story — most of that now carries with the "Made in China" label. I was told that the owners of the factories in Taiwan relocated production to China. I visited an R&D bluetooth certification company owned by someone I knew. His Taipei lab had 4 engineers doing the high value-added work, but the routine certification is done by his Shenzhen-based lab employing dozens of engineers. The salary ratio is 5:1 with Taiwan being the 5. There is no linguistic or cultural barrier to the easy transfer of factories, business or investment from Taiwan to China, so it keeps happening. It is a pity that the government(s) of Taiwan did not have the foresight to see this coming. The governments of South Korea and Singapore did, and they moved their skill base upward in response, identifying key new knowledge-intensive and precision-oriented areas which only require high education and massive investment to inititate. Taiwan is now paying the price — high unemployment, lowering living standards, floundering policies. The de-skilling of a once educationally ambitious youth is very sad to see. My conclusion re the merger question is that economically it has already happened. Politically Taiwan may have no choice but to accept the Hong Kong model — as one of your answerers suggested — if it is to have any chance of revival as a viable entity.
On the lighter side, it is said that the biggest deterrent to any war between Taiwan and China is the fact that all the rich businessmen in Taiwan have their investments in China, and what is more, most of them have second or even third wives and families there. These guys finance the two contending parties in Taiwan. If you visit Shenzhen there is a village there called (in Cantonese) "Second Wife Village" where gorgeous ladies live in well-appointed houses and drive expensive imported cars. I have not been there but one day my curiosity will be satiated
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March 30th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
How about we merge the U.S. with China, and enforce the Chinese political system in place of the American one? That should give you the feeling about how Taiwanese feel about the issue.
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March 30th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
The way Jimmy Carter screwed Taiwan its coming sooner then later
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March 30th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Not in the near future! The political systems are incompatible. Very few Taiwanese want to be ruled by the Communists. Taiwanese are used to democracy. To unify the two sides, either China makes move towards democracy or takes over Taiwan by force.
Besides, there are geo-political struggles involved. No countries, except Singapore, want to see the re-unification of China and Taiwan because that will make China much more powerful and fearless. Japan and U.S. want to use Taiwan as a bargaining chip to rein China. The U.S. sells billions of dollars of arms and supplies to Taiwan each year. Unification means loss of business! Taiwan serves the interests of the U.S. in the western Pacific.
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