Pragmatic politics, not boneheaded nationalism, echo with the people in Taiwan. KMT's Hong Kong born, Harvard educated Ma Ying-jeou won the island's presidential election. The affable Ma is expected to form closer ties with the PRC than his DPP archrivals.
The 57-year old Ma will be inaugurated into office on May 20, ending DPP's Chen Shui-bian 8-year's rule on the island.
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I would not say "island", would rather say "this island republic", Ma is the President of Republic of China, we born in the same hospital, some Hongkonger celebrate Ma's victory outside the Kwong Wah Hospital, waving the small KMT flags (not ROC flag), it's very unusual in Hong Kong
ReplyDeleteThe Taiwanese should be proud. They show that democracy can work in a Chinese society too.
ReplyDeletevl2008
wp2007, does it make you proud because you and Ma was delivered the same hospital. Hope he can rub off some of his greatness to you, eh?
ReplyDeletevl2008,
You know how I feel about the Taiwanese....
I wish I could know the Taiwanese dialect a bit better, but since I am a no talent, so I totally miss out. And they will always remain a mystery to me.
Maybe it's my affectation, nobody thinks I am a Cantonese from Hong Kong. I am more like Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese Chinese, Korean or Japanese. Anyway, it doesn't hurt my feeling. I don't have a strong sense of what I am ethnic wise. Proximity trumps similarity, I get along with people around me okay, no matter what they are, to a certain extent.
I don't know what I am talking about.
I am just like you. That's good!The only difference is that others think that I am black or Vietnamese.
ReplyDeletevl2008