And War -- The Centennial Question of the Two Sides: The Centennial Question of the Two Sides

Author: Ruan Cishan
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Faced with the current severe and complex cross-strait relations, the "peace or war" issue has become a century-old focal point for people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and all overseas Chinese worldwide. Ruan Cishan, a renowned political commentator at Hong Kong's Phoenix TV, has always been closely following the development of cross-strait relations over the past decade with his unique perspective and profound insights. This book meticulously compiles and organizes Ruan's numerous commentaries over the years, allowing readers to gain a comprehensive view of the past ten years of thorny cross-strait relations through his sharp and witty words. Ruan Cishan: There are many concerns among domestic scholars recently. They believe that young people and the middle echelons in Taiwan seem to be drifting further away from the mainland, and they can't blame them. This middle group, those under 30, if we subtract 15 years from their age, it adds up to about 15 to 16 years—the time when Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian were in office, totaling about 15 or 16 years. Before that, they were children of about 10 years old. How could they understand anything? Over these 15 years, Lee Teng-hui deliberately altered Taiwan's textbooks to promote separation from the mainland and localize them, with newspapers constantly echoing such rhetoric. These children lived in a state of brainwashing 15 years ago, and now, at 25 or 30 years old, this generation's thinking is increasingly distant from the mainland. This is inevitable, and it is also a crisis.