WHO STANDS IN THE WAY OF TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE?
Poll results such as these are clearly devastating to the Taiwan independence elites’ transparent fiction, disseminated uncritically by our “objective” western media, by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek magazine, that the ROC public “yearns for Taiwan independence” and considers itself “Taiwanese, not Chinese.” On-air polls are of course, as I have freely acknowledged, not “scientific.” No matter. Results such as these are fully consistent with other more “official” gauges of public sentiment, not the least of which was the recent presidential election. In fact the Taiwan independence elites’ conduct, which drowns out their words, is proof positive they know perfectly well how the ROC majority feels about Taiwan independence. That’s why A-Bian campaigned the way he did, talking up his “New Centrist Path” and distancing himself from the DPP’s pro independence party charter. That’s why A-Bian solemnly promised, if elected, NOT to make the slightest move toward Taiwan ind
