Tasks Facing Overseas Chinese Pushing China's Reunification---Dr Cham BoonNgee, Chairman of Canadian Chinese Alliance for China's ReunificationTaiwan Island is an inalienable territorial part and as flesh and blood closely linked to the Chinese nation, so under no circumstances should the Chinese people allow the island's splitting away from the motherland. For every descendant living on the Chinese mainland or overseas, the nation's reunification is a responsibility and task that must be fulfilled for where lie the fundamental interests of the nation.Seeking reunification underlying national spiritDuring the past 2000 years since the Qin Dynasty (B.C. 221- B.C. 206), China had remained a unified nation for over a two thirds of the time. Historical experience tells us that a unified nation would prosper while people long floundered in misery must be in the throes of a split time. So a unified nation has always been the common aspiration of the Chinese people on which the nation has lived and multiplied with the time.For more than hundred years the Chinese people had gone through all possible efforts to rejuvenate China, which demands exclusive independent national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Since the founding of New China in 1949, great achievements have been made to that end by the nation. But Taiwan has not got reunited with the mainland, which means the nation's hundred-year-old misery has not been completely ended and there is still a long way to go. The newly installed local authorities in Taiwan have tried every possibility not to accept the "One China" principle and have been up to sundry tricks under a splittist line. All these have posed great challenge to the nation's dignity and the resolve for the rise of a reunified China. Tasks facing overseas ChineseHistory tells that national split situations had all been transient. Any leader merited for stamping out splitting forces and bringing about a united Chinese nation would be long remembered by history, while those who should want to split or betray the nation would become human dregs of sin. National reunification of the mainland with Taiwan is a historical trend, which is not to be held back by any individual, alien force or country.Overseas Chinese' work should focus on opposing any outside force trying to bolster up "Taiwan Independence" in the way a favorable international environment for China's reunification is created. Therefore their efforts should be chiefly made in their resident countries. People of the common run in Western countries usually don't know much about China's Taiwan issue, so organizations "opposing independence and promoting reunification" should shoulder the task of doing various publicity and explanatory work. They can also have their own publications out in Chinese, English and other native tones to go in for various enlightening work on relevant social groups to raise their anti-independence voice. According to incomplete statistics, by now there have been over 80 organizations "opposing independence and promoting reunification" by overseas Chinese, which underlines the following two facts. First, they have the urge for China's speedy reunification. Second, they have voluntarily joined in and got themselves organized fighting for China's reunification. "The Overseas Chinese World Conference Opposing Taiwan independence and Promoting China's Reunification" has been held in Berlin and Washington respectively last August and November, and this year's would be opened in Tokyo. All these have strengthened the anti-independence determination of overseas Chinese. Overseas Chinese should also make best efforts to offset the influence of such anti-China fallacies as "China threat" and "Taiwan Independence" to better fulfil their task in contributing to China's reunification. By PD Online Staff Li Heng |
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