Peace or War: 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 over the world. Ruan Cishan, a renowned political commentator from Hong Kong's Phoenix TV, has always been closely observing the development of cross-strait relations over the past decade with his unique perspective and profound insights. This book carefully compiles and arranges 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 in Taiwan and the middle-tier population seem to be drifting farther 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. Before 15 to 16 years ago, 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. Newspapers constantly published such rhetoric. These children lived in a state of brainwashing for 15 years. By the time they reach 25 or 30 today, this generation's thinking has become increasingly distant from the mainland. This is inevitable, of course, and it is also a crisis.