The Century-Old Question of War and Peace Between 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 focus of attention for people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and all overseas Chinese around the world. Mr. Ruan Cishan, a renowned political commentator at Hong Kong's Phoenix TV, has always been closely watching the development of cross-strait relations over the past decade with his unique perspective and profound insights. This book carefully compiles and organizes Mr. Ruan's numerous commentaries over the years, allowing readers to gain a comprehensive view of the past decade's thorny path of 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 tier in Taiwan 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, totaling about 15 to 16 years. Before that, they were children around 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 15 years ago. Today, at 25 or 30 years old, this generation's thinking is becoming increasingly distant from the mainland. This is inevitable, of course, and it is also a crisis.