The Taiwan Independence Movement's Core Value: Ethnic Solidarity

The Taiwan Independence Movement's Core Value: Ethnic Solidarity
China Post editorial
Bevin Chu
December 6, 2008

Pan Blue pundits have long confessed bafflement over DPP, Green Camp, and Taiwan independence movement behavior. They have penned countless articles confessing that they simply cannot understand why the DPP, the Green Camp, and the Taiwan independence movement are so obstinate in their support for Chen Shui-bian.

Key Chen accomplices have confessed. Their testimony is damning and incontrovertible. Chen''s conviction and incarceration for embezzlement and money-laundering is now a foregone conclusion.

Yet the Democratic Progressive Party, the Green Camp, and the Taiwan independence movement persist in supporting this disgustingly opportunistic and appallingly greedy demagogue.

Why?

The DPP, the Green Camp, the Taiwan independence movement have long maintained that their core values are transcendent, universal values such as "freedom, human rights, and democracy."

That is a lie. The DPP, the Green Camp, and the Taiwan independence movement's core value has never been anything except ethnic identity, nay, racial identity, a "Taiwanese, not Chinese" racial identity.

And since Taiwanese are in fact Chinese, this "Taiwanese, not Chinese" racial identity is not even an actual racial identity, but an ersatz, artificially-concocted "Taiwanese, not Chinese" racial identity.

Pan Blue pundits, stop wondering. The reason the DPP, the Green Camp, and the Taiwan independence movement are so obstinate in their support for Chen Shui-bian, is that Chen is the "Son of Taiwan." He is Taiwan's "Native Son." He is "one of us," as opposed to "one of them." And since it's "us against them," since it's "Us Taiwanese against them Chinese," supporting him is a foregone conclusion.

The DPP, the Green Camp, and the Taiwan independence movement find it virtually impossible to disown Chen Shui-bian, for the same reason all-white juries in the Deep South often found it impossible to convict a white man guilty of a crime against a black man.

Famed TV talk show host and former legislator Sisy Chen once said "The DPP is the Ku Klux Klan of Taiwan." She ought to know. She was once Public Relations Director for the Democratic Progressive Party, and resigned in disgust over the DPP's incorrigible bigotry.

Best-selling author Joyce Huang (Huang Chi-hsien) has compared the DPP to Germany's National Socialist Party, and the Taiwan independence movement to the Nazi movement. She ought to know. She is a native Taiwanese liberal reformer and long time critic of KMT authoritarianism.

The Democratic Progressive Party has long paid pro forma lip service to "ren quan li guo," i.e., "founding a nation on human rights." Alas, lip service is all it is, and ever will be.

The Presbyterian Church on Taiwan has been meddling in China's domestic politics for nearly a century. It has driven a wedge between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan by instilling hatred for mainland Chinese in the hearts and minds of Chinese on Taiwan.

In their fanatical quest to divide China, pastors of the Presbyterian Church have even advocated violating the Ninth Commandment, which states: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."

During his 2004 re-election campaign, Chen Shui-bian ordered Chen Yu-hao, former chairman of the Tuntex Group and a fugitive exiled to the US, placed on Taiwan's "Ten Most Wanted" list. Chen Shui-bian was desperate to cast himself as a squeaky clean political reformer at Chen Yu-hao's expense.

A furious Chen Yu-hao responded by appearing on television and revealing the ugly truth. Chen Shui-bian had eagerly pocketed a fortune in political contributions from Chen Yu-hao over the past decade.

When Chen Shui-bian tried to deny the charges, Chen Yu-hao revealed that ROC legislator Shen Fu-hsiung, a DPP "elder" with a reputation for honesty within DPP circles was an eyewitness who saw Chen Yu-hao hand First Lady Wu Shu-chen a bag full of cash.

Considering Shen was also Chen Shui-bian's campaign manager, Chen Yu-hao's revelation put Shen in a somewhat awkward position. Rather than lie, Shen went into hiding for the following week.

What happened next was like a scene out of a black comedy. A delegation of pastors from the Presbyterian Church paid an emergency visit to Shen. What textual truth did these devout Christians share with him? They solemnly assured Shen that it was not a sin to lie as long as it was in a good cause. In other words, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor, unless it advances Taiwan independence."

The DPP, the Green Camp, the Taiwan independence movement's non-negotiable bottom line has never been transcendent, universal values such as truth and justice.

The DPP, the Green Camp, the Taiwan independence movement's over-arching concern has always been the artificial creation of a "Taiwanese, not Chinese" ethnic and national identity, and probably always will be.

That is why the Democratic Progressive Party, the Green Camp, and the Taiwan independence movement persist in supporting Chen Shui-bian.