Scholar Slates Chen Shui-bian Pro-'independence' Speeches

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Scholar Slates Chen Shui-bian Pro-'independence' Speeches

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Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian's recent attack on China's "one country, two systems" policy exposed his true intention to blaze a trail for the forces for "Taiwan independence", according to a Chinese scholar.

Chen Shui-bian recently declared that no such a model existed in democratic countries for the policy advocated by the Communist Party of China, and the Communist system would not allow "one country, two systems" to survive for long.

Professor Xu Bodong, director of the Taiwan Studies Institute with the Beijing Union University, told Xinhua Chen's remarks seemed to attack only the "two systems". However, his real purposewas to undermine the "one China" principle, in line with his pro-independence speeches advocating "one country on each side".

Xu said the successful implementation of the "one country, two systems" policy in Hong Kong and Macao had not changed social systems and lifestyles in the two regions; society there had become more stable and both economies continued to progress.

Achievements resulting from the "one country, two systems" policy had won high praise from the international community, as well as from the Hong Kong and Macao people, he noted. Chen's attack on "one country, two systems" is defiance to the public opinion.

Xu pointed out that Chen was already aware that the pro-"Taiwan independence" lobby was going nowhere, and his own political status in Taiwan was faltering, when he tried to attack the universally-acknowledged reality of "one country, two systems". Hedeployed his pro-"independence" rhetoric like "'one country' is opposite to 'two systems'", with the aim of blocking the development of cross-Straits relations. While attacking "one country, two systems", Chen claimed the Taiwanese people had the right to use democratic methods, including a public vote, to fight any threat aimed at changing Taiwan's status quo. Professor Xu called Chen's remarks a typical fraudulent trick.

Chen dreamed about taking the road to Taiwan "independence" in the name of democracy, Xu said. However, support for the "one-China" policy was very solid in the international community. It was a fallacy for Chen to seek support from Western countries by negating "one country, two systems" in the name of democracy.

Taiwan belonged to all the Chinese people and the fate of Taiwan could only be decided by all the Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Straits. Chen's intention to separate Taiwan from China by means of a so-called "public vote" breached the interests of all the Chinese people including Taiwanese.

Taiwan was an inalienable part of China, and both Taiwan and the mainland belong to one China", Xu stressed. "One China, two Systems" was a good solution to the Taiwan issue. It paid sufficient regard to history, and the Taiwan people's right to select a social system for Taiwan, and was the best way to maintain Taiwan's current status.

Chen's remarks reminded people that the struggle against the pro-"Taiwanese independence" forces would be hard and that those forces were heading for a dead end, Xu pointed out.

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