"Unifying Taiwan" — A Bogus Proposition Cooked Up by Muddleheads!

2006/4/7 17:13:58

In this world, there are always widely repeated fallacies that people take for granted. For example, the so-called "Unifying Taiwan" proposition that everyone discusses is a bogus proposition cooked up by muddleheads! Anyone who gets entangled in this either has water in their brain or harbors ulterior motives.

Let me ask: since 1949, has Taiwan ever been separated? Obviously not! Because, at least to this day, Taiwan has never been separated either legally or in fact. Since Taiwan has not been separated, what is there to "unify"? What needs to be "unified" must have been legally and factually separated already. Doesn't the proposition of "Unifying Taiwan" implicitly acknowledge that Taiwan has already been separated? This is clearly a preposterous upon preposterous proposition!

Some might ask: then what is Taiwan's current situation? This question is the same as asking what Yan'an was in 1936! For the central government at that time, Yan'an did not present a "unification" problem, because it was already within the same country — what was there to unify? Taiwan's current situation is exactly the same. There is no "unification" problem — only problems of liberation, suppression, or amnesty!

Taiwan is currently just a large mountain stronghold occupied by bandits who are not from the central government. Taiwan's so-called leaders are nothing more than so-called bandit chiefs. None of this has anything to do with national unification or separation. Even though Taiwan's bandits are remnants of the former central government, this does not change their bandit nature.

As the saying goes: "Those who succeed are kings; those who fail are bandits." King and bandit are merely synonyms for success and failure — they carry no other special meaning. When Zhu Yuanzhang was being hunted by the Yuan dynasty, he was a bandit; once he destroyed the Yuan dynasty, its remnants became the bandits. This has been consistent and obvious throughout Chinese history — is it not clear enough? Otherwise, if someone stirs up trouble at Liangshan Marsh, we'd have to talk about national separation, and a few petty thugs squatting on their turf and hollering a few slogans would require discussing national unification — wouldn't everything fall into chaos?

No matter what kind of mess, chaos is chaos. Regarding the current Taiwan issue, if one truly must raise a slogan, it should be "Suppress the Remaining Bandits, Liberate Taiwan" — not the nonsensical so-called "Unify Taiwan"! Of course, if the bandits have the good sense, they can surrender or accept amnesty. Beyond that, everything else is just pulling down your pants to fart — pointless trouble-making!