The ‘rebel’ island today experiences in democracy, with its defects and its positive aspects, one can only dream that a similar system will also one day be adopted in the Mainland China. It will indeed be a great day for humanity.
On October 18, in a message congratulating Cheng Li-wun, the newly elected leader of the Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan’s main opposition party, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for efforts to advance ‘reunification’.
The Taiwanese should think twice before joining Communist China.
Of course, Beijing will promise, ‘One Country, Two Systems’ to their Taiwanese ‘countrymen and women’ living on the island, but the sloganhas lost much of its relevance after Hong Kong went back to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1997.
Hong Kong was to operate as a Special Administrative Region (SAR) with a high degree of autonomy under Chinese sovereignty, however in recent years, Beijing has been increasingly asserting its control; the Hong Kongers helplessly witnessed the gradual erosion of their freedom.
The Taiwanese should also look at the example of Xinjiang, which was annexed as ‘The New Dominion’ by the PRC in 1949/1950.
Today, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is implementing a new strategy known as the ‘Cultural Enrichment of Xinjiang’, in other words the ‘Cultural Assimilation of Xinjiang’.
Recently, Xi Jinping attended the 70th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. He watched a gala entitled ‘Beautiful Xinjiang’. Xinhua News agency explained: “The gala is structured in three parts. The first part presents the vibrant efforts in Xinjiang’s socialist construction. The second part showcases the dynamism brought by reform and opening up to the region while the final part depicts the beautiful vision of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang working together to pursue their dreams in the new era.”
It is not what the UN and human rights organizations have experienced; in fact, most observers believe that it is rather a systematic program of cultural and demographic colonization, eroding Uyghur traditions, language, and identity.
During his speech in Urumqi, Xi is quoted by Sputnik, the Russian newspaper as speaking of strengthening the “sense of a unified Chinese national community, promoting the Sinicization of religion, and advancing ‘Cultural Enrichment of Xinjiang’ to instill what the Party calls ‘correct views’ on nation, history, ethnicity, culture, and religion among all ethnic groups.
