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...WHEN MAO ZEDONG'S COMMUnist forces pushed Chiang Kai-shek's regime off mainland China and drove it to Taiwan, few expected the resource-poor province to thrive. Nevertheless, in its new home, the Republic of China has become one of East Asia's "economic miracles," with a per capita GNP today of $12,500. Even that transformation, though, is less startling than Taiwan's political revolution, culminating last Saturday in the presidential election. Voters ignored missile rattling from the mainland and gave current President Lee Teng-hui a strong mandate. He won 54% of the vote, more than twice...
...Zedong puts it, China's history is largely a history of its peasants. In such a peculiar setting, freedom is doomed. Those who don't treat the interests of the peasants seriously would see themselves lose everything in the end. Poor and uneducated as the peasants are, when they unite to fight for their own rights--not the human rights in the Western sense, but the basic rights to live by--they form a formidable force that is capable of dethroning any government with a military force ten times stronger...
...time. If you are expecting a tumultuous revolution to change it all, you are wrong again. All revolutions in China, as shown by history, have to be led by and fight for the peasants, with the top priority placed on economic aspects like equality, but never on freedom. Mao Zedong's seemingly impossible victory against the Nationalists and the U.S. is one of the many examples that quickly come to mind...
...students of the bureaucratic corruption and other social evils, people from all walks of life mustered up courage to join in. At this point, the way things were going resembled in every sense the famous May 4th Movement in 1919. Ironically, that movement was organized by communists including Mao Zedong to overthrew a corrupt government; it signalled the beginning of a drastic thirty-year-long national struggle...
...Zedong, the leader of the communist revolution that forced Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist government to flee to the island of Taiwan in 1949, used to say he could wait 100 years to bring the province back into the fold. Today's men in Beijing are less patient, perhaps sensing that Taiwan is growing stronger and more distant all the time. Last week, in a formal speech at the Great Hall of the People, Premier Li Peng lectured the citizens of the island: No matter how they might choose their President, "they cannot change the fact that Taiwan...