Taiwan is a part of China and cannot be separated from the
mainland.
The reason why Chen SHui Bian now want independence is mainly due
to the Japanese occupation in Taiwan from 1895 to 1945 when the
Japanese used propaganda to influence the people of Taiwan that
they are second class citizens of Japan, and the people of Taiwan
were made to wear Japanese custumes and no Chinese custumes were
allowed to wear. Only Japanese was taught and learning their mother
tongue Chinese was prohibited. Once discovered, death.
The Japanese occupation had a great impact on Taiwan until today.
The former "president" Li Deng Hui even said that he himself is a
Japanese..what rubbish...
As some of you guys said that China needed to be more democratic, I
have to tell you something. After the cultural revolution, China's
economy is damn poor and the country has been struggling with
building up its economy for years. Now even though the people of
China can live carefree lives, and the economy is ok, but there are
still people who wanted democracy. Which i disagree. The communist
party is not the communist party we know in the past. It is
different now. Maybe my post on my blog titled "Communism in China"
explains some of it:
Communism in China
From Huaqing's Blog
(http://mahuaqing.blogspot.com)
As a lot of you know, China has been under communism rule
since 1 October 1949. Over the years, the communists here have
undergone a lot of changes. Nowadays, i don't find them like
communist anymore.
Over the years, communism failed in many countries, such as Russia.
However, nowadays countries like China and North Korea still claim
to be under communism rule. The communists in these two countries
are very different.
In North Korea, the communists there did not make North Korea a
rich country. In fact, after the Korean war has ended for more than
a century, North Korea's economy only grew a little. The people
there has not enough food to eat. As a result, the nation has to
rely on other countries to supply her with food and other
resources.
In Malaya, communists created waves of unrest and disorder and
people in Malaya did not like the communists. At first the Malayan
Communist Party or MCP tried to overthrow the Brithish colonial
rule, but to no success. Singapore eventually gained full self
government with people like Lee Kuan Yew. Now MCP is very weak and
is only present in Malaya. Its relations with the Chinese
Communists Party is very bad also. It is very clear that the
Chinese Communists Party did not agree with the Malayan Communists
Party on creating social disorder in Singapore.
Since 1840, China has been under half-colonial and half-imperial
rule under Qing Dynasty until 1911, when the Xin Hai Revolution
occured, which overthrew the Qing Dynasty. Since 1840, Western
powers defeated China and occupied many areas. The English sold
opium to China, and made a lot of people addicted to it. The First
Opium War opened the door of China, and after that many other
western powers also came to China to occupy her land and natural
resources.
The 1911 Xin Hai Revolution overthrew the corrupt Qing dynasty
imperial government, and Sun Yat Sun set up The Nationalists Pary,
also known as Kuomintang. He hoped to change China, but China was
still in danger. In 1931, the Japanese occupied The Northeast
Provinces or Manchuria of China, Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaonin.
The Japanese furthered its expansion in 1937 when it started to
invade other parts of China. When the war ended in 1945, the
Nationalists started a war against the communists. So the two
parties fought against each other.
The communist has long wanted to overthrow the Nationalists led by
Chiang Kai Shek, because it was also corrupted, which the
communists succeeded. In 1949, the Nationalists were forced to
leave Mainland China and fled to Taiwan. This situation caused
there to be two governments in China nowadays, one in Mainland and
another in Taiwan.
In 1949, there is this saying in China that "Without The Communists
Pary, There is no a New China", which is quite true. If the
communist did not overthrow the Nationalists, then i cannot imagine
what China will be like nowadays...probably still very poor.
After the communists took over, the people of China had their lives
improved. Over the years, the communists commited some mistakes to
cause economy downturn in China too, eg. The Great March in the
1950s, and the Cultural Revolutions in the 1960-70s.
In 1979, ex-Chinese president Deng Xiao Ping became the president
of the nation and the Cultural Revolution finally came to an end.
China's economy began to revive. After 20 over years, when we take
a look at the economy of China, we find it has grown a lot and
China became richer. None other communists state has ever achieved
this.
One difference between China and other communists nations is that,
China allows captalism to be present despite communists oppose
captalists. Therefore, i say that the communists nowadays are not
like communist anymore.
The communists in China are more interested in economy than
communism. This is really very different from North Korea. Maybe
that is why North Korea remained so poor after over half a century
of nation building.
I wonder what will happen if the political system in China changes
again. The country may be in chaos. Therefore i think the current
system is good enough, as it is trying to change slowly. Instead of
wanting democracy, we should accept the current political
system.
By the way the current political system is democratic too. The
National Congress(Members of the Parliament in Chinese Terms) is a
meeting held every few years and the representatives from different
parts of China were elected. Thus they represent the people. I
don't see why it is not democratic. 
