Taiwan urges China to respect freedom on centenary

What a funny photo-- Ma Ying-jeou trying to look fierce and patriotic! Who does he think he's fooling???

He's not even courageous enough to let people call him "President" or let people show ROC flags when his superiors from China come to Taiwan to check up on his progress.

Tsai Ying-wen has more balls than Ma ever did, s patriotic Taiwanese will vote for her.

Ma still has a green card, so he can move back to USA soon.

I smell fire ,and is not funny.

Brief speech + hour long arms display? Okay I see you Taiwan

He meant to say freedom, democracy, and fair tax codes with financial systems regulation.

hey mista, u got 10 dolla i make u holla - u me go fukie sukie !!!

Commie china = new greedy nazi thug.....BEWARE.

No matter what you say, the economic development keeps improving everyday. The only unfortunate thing is that political reform is not keeping up.

But eventually China will be a democracy like all developed countries. The only question is when not whether.

The Actions of China will Determine it Future. Freedom from remote Control is Universal. No one likes a puppet master sooner or later.

American poppy!!

"Since the introduction of market-based economic reforms in 1978, China has become the world's fastest-growing major economy,[18] and the world's largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods. As of 2011[update], it is the world's second-largest economy, after the United States, by both nominal GDP and purchasing power parity (PPP).[19] On per capita terms, however, China ranked only 91st by nominal GDP and 94th by GDP (PPP) in 2010, according to the IMF. China is a recognized nuclear weapons state and has the world's largest standing army, with the second-largest defense budget. In 2003, China became the third nation in the world, after the Soviet Union and the United States, to independently launch a successful manned space mission. China has been characterized as a potential superpower by a number of academics,[20] military analysts,[21] and public policy and economics analysts.[22]" frm wikipedia

Imagine the near future controlled by Imperial China! we all will be communist.

Taiwan should just unite with China except, don't let the mainland chinese come into taiwan because mainland chinese smell and sounds like baboons. taiwan is just wasting their money by buying arms from US. how's that going to protect you from china? why don't you save that money and use the money to keep the main land chinese out.

Everybody please take notice. Taiwan will hold its presidential election in next January. The blabs exuded by Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-Jeou are designed to attract votes from the left-leaning independent voters. If he does not say any antagonized rhetoric toward China, these voters will flock to cast their ballots for the candidate from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Speaking of DPP, it is nothing but a power-grabbing rogue party. It has no desire to advance Taiwan’s technology and economy, and to elevate Taiwanese’s living standard. The main purpose of this party is to forge an environment under which it can declare Taiwan independence. To achieve its ends at all costs, it is willing to be a Japan’s colony, much the same as it was in the period from 1895 to 1945. It is also trying to strike fear at China by hiding behind the US (狐假虎威), and is willing to drag the US into a confrontational stance against China, because it is taking advantage of the US-Taiwan mutual defense treaty. While the Nationalist Party, founded by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen who authored a road map, the Three Principles of the People (三民主義) to rescue China from a near-colonized state, is working strenuously to follow Dr. Sun’s patriotic treatise for the past 100 years, the DPP, which was founded just 30 years ago, is busy with power grabbing. Having no thematic principles like Dr. Sun’s, the DPP is an opportunistic parasite depending on other countries to satisfy its hunger for power.
Having read all the comments, I feel that the commenters of Chinese origin who are hostile toward Chinese Communists are purely because of their unsettled personal scores with the Communists, because they thought their wealth was “robbed” and “stolen”. But please think from the flip side. Most of those who were rich before the Chinese Civil War were stingy misers. The landlords and the bourgeois mistreated, oppressed, and squeezed their subjects and laborers. Although they were very well-to-do, they showed no compassion, no benevolence whatsoever toward their inferiors (為富不仁). That was why the Communists were so welcomed. My advice to the offspring of the past rich Chinese who were affected, please don’t pass down your unsettled personal scores from generation to generation. It is time to move on. In a war, whether it is between nations or among own people, there are always damages and casualties. You can not hold the grudge forever. Let us fight for the common good of all Chinese and of all the people on earth. Long live the mankind!

china must say "OK, WE DO IT!!" and do nothing.

I can't wait to see China blow Taiwan with 2000 missiles.

OWEbama must confront and tackle 2 “MAIN” American issues head-on to gain voter confidence ASAP:
1) China for FAIR trade practices – China affairs ALONE can wipe out USA’s national debt.
2) Terrorist nation of Pakistan for global security issues – bomb ALL Paki Nuke silos NOW.

wwIII

PRC

My grandparents were from China too! My grandfather's family owned a factory and Shanghai where they exported textiles. Mao and his band of thugs came and were jealous of them, ransacked their company and stole all their wealth. Before my greatgrandfather was killed, he called in enough favors to send my grandfather to safety outside of the city. My grandfather eventually grew up and joined the army to fight off Mao's thugs, but because of their great numbers and stolen wealth, they just couldn't fight them off. Eventually he and my grandmother (they met in the army, both trying to avenge the death of their families) had to escape to Taiwan.

Communist China respect freedom?
BWAAAHAHAHAHA

Taiwan has been saying that China would eventually invade for a while now. Sad, as if great big China can't do without Taiwan. Says a LOT about China. I hope we stay out of that mess.