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Mr President, for a long time, my group took a straightforward view of the People’s Republic of China and of the government that sits on the island of Taiwan. It was that, in 1949, an old and incompetent clique of profiteers, incapable of offering a solution to poverty and injustice, was sent packing by the people, and rightly so. They fled to an island where most of the people did not feel Chinese and which, up to 1945, did not belong to China for sustained periods of time. On that island, they set up a military dictatorship and tried to carry out attacks on the mainland, eventually forfeiting international recognition and being thrown out of the United Nations.
Meanwhile on the mainland, all kinds of interesting experiments were going on, including the industrialisation of the countryside and a sweeping reorganisation of agriculture. The advent of factories, railway and dams helped the country move forward. Unfortunately, during those experiments, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, as a result of inexperience, serious mistakes were made which claimed many lives. That seemed to be the price they had to pay for a prosperous future.
The situation now is that, led by the heirs to this revolutionary regime, China is still a country with a future, but our political line has changed completely. Despite enjoying exponential growth, the People’s Republic suffers from very pronounced inequality, imposes the death penalty, and lacks both democratic processes and freedom of organisation. For the moment, the model is reminiscent of what South Korea and Taiwan have rightly abandoned.
Taiwan has developed from a military dictatorship into a democracy that can increasingly be compared with Europe and Japan. As a democracy, it aspires to become a non-Chinese, and therefore independent, Taiwan. In our search for a solution to a 56-year long division of what is internationally recognised as Chinese territory, we will need to take these new developments into account. Only in that way can we help find peaceful solutions for the future."@en1
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