I personally think that most Taiwan politicians are smart and
coy enough to know what the priorities are. Yes, Ma maybe praising
the SG to the high heavens but he knows that the Taiwanese, unlike
SGreans are sharp, alert and can analyze information indepedently.
They will not just blindly follow what the newspaper says. The blue
camp for all this yrs like the PAP have lost contact with the
hearts and minds of Taiwanese, especially the younger generation.
The autocratic rule of the Chiang eras coupled with the
"merry-making, serenading PRC" stances does not bodes well with
younger generations. Times have changed, the younger generations of
Taiwan wants to carve out an identity or culture for themselves and
unlike the older generations, they have no connections or feelings
for mainland. So why times have progress, KMT not only lost the
support of the young, their usual stances of " KMT is endorsed by
the mainland so voting for me means no war", potraying themselves
as PRC's second fiddle, does not connect with the ppls. Yes no
doubt PRC has threat the island with force, but it is the ppls that
installs the govt, not the PLA.......
The recent speech by Ma is just a smoke screen used to allow KMT to
re-shuffle their focus on domestic issues.
