Ma is unilaterally changing Taiwan’s status quo with Hu in Hawaii? by HoonTing/SW

連馬在夏威夷片面改變台灣地位？

 

Ma is unilaterally changing Taiwan’s status quo with Hu in Hawaii?  by HoonTing/SW

 

Ma’s official representative Lien Chan met and conversed with Chinese President Hu Jin-tau at the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting, hosted by the U.S. in Honolulu this year.  The economic conference was a formal international occasion attended by governmental representatives and therefore took on political significance, though Lien and Hu claimed that they were just exchanging a KMT-CPC dialogue.

President Hu first recognized the so-called “1992 consensus” as the precondition of the cross-strait dialogue and the foundation of a peaceful development.  Besides repeating Hu’s slogan, Lien added that “the insistence on the 1992 consensus…is the keystone of reciprocal trade and prosperity,” and that—above all—the “1992 consensus is vital to political mutual trust.”

That divulged MYJ and Lien’s eagerness for a peace accord with Beijing.  Lien later hinted to Hu again on the possibility of “exchanging viewpoints on the cross-strait peace issue.”  In spite of the lack of a direct response, Hu implied that the 1992 consensus presents a practical approach to cross-strait political issues, and emphasized that both sides “identify the 1992 consensus as a common political foundation.”  It sounded like an overt exchange of political ciphers.

Ever since the Truman Statement in 1950, the US has never changed the stance that the Taiwan status is yet undetermined.  Former Secretary of State Collin Powell said on October 25, 2004, “ Taiwan does not enjoy the sovereignty as a state.”  Dennis Wilder, National Security Council Senior Director for Asian Affairs, confirmed on August 30, 2007, “ Taiwan , or the Republic of China, is not at this point a state in the international community.”  The latest claim was made by the Federal prosecutors in Kansas City to justify the arrest of Hsien-Hsien Liu, director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City : “The U.S. doesn't recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state.”

Turning a deaf ear to the US claims, MYJ schemed to unilaterally change Taiwan’s status quo with China through his representative Lien Chan to APEC on the very day of Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s memorial birthday in Honolulu, which happens to be the location of the headquarter of USPACOM.  And Hu is doing his best to make the phony “1992 consensus” a reality.

The Chinese president stressed that the “1992 consensus” was reached by two civil agencies officially mandated by both governments and hence is an objective fact.  Obviously, he was trying to establish a situation that no one could alter even if DPP wins the 2012 election and takes the Presidential office.  Hu purposely leveled up the “consensus of 1992” from an arrangement between political parties to a governmental memorandum, alarmingly echoing MYJ’s vow of “making the detente across the strait an irreversible trend.”

This is Ma’s newest China friendly move, initiated in mid-September at Washington D.C. by his close kinship Jin Pu-tsong’s statement that a peace accord with Beijing should be concluded during Ma’s second term, which Ma echoed in mid-October.

A non-existent “consensus of 1992” revived in Honolulu, sneaking into the spotlight and weaving all the cross-strait relations around a lie.  Unbelievably, no federal counter-response has been heard.  Are you too busy, Uncle Sam?  So busy that you grant a tacit acknowledgement to a unilateral change of Taiwan ’s status that might undermine the US ’s right to speak over Taiwan and sabotage the US-Japan alliance, all because of a rowdy dialogue taking place at the front yard of the USPACOM?