Wake up before it's too late, Taiwan

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By the Northern Taiwan Society, the Central Taiwan Society, the Southern Taiwan Society, the Eastern Taiwan Society and PEN Taiwan ????



Thursday, Mar 11, 2004,Page 8

The rate of public satisfaction with legislators is low, and reducing the number of seats in the legislature by half has become the consensus of the people. On Jan. 14, key staff from the Northern Taiwan Society, the Central Tai-wan Society, the Southern Taiwan Society, the Eastern Taiwan Society and the PEN Taiwan visited the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) headquarters, requesting that the KMT sign a commitment to halve the legislature, complete legislative negotiations on the issue and announce a concrete agreement by March 15.

The KMT only sent a low-level official, Wang Tan-ping (???), the head of its policy research department, to receive us. Wang said that halving the legislature involves constitutional amendments and should not be done recklessly without complete planning. He refused to sign our appeal. But we were unwilling to give up on our mission, and sent the appeal to both presidential candidates by registered mail.

President Chen Shui-bian (???) signed the commitment before the deadline we proposed, but KMT Chairman Lien Chan (??) has not yet responded. In the presidential debate on Feb. 21, Lien merely said that the issue involves other complementary measures, and that "it's necessary to propose concrete plans regarding legislators elected from the nationwide constituency, and the division of electoral districts." But he was unwilling to make a sincere response to any of these "concrete plans."

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1. Sorry to inform you

but neither the side will risk nuclear war for Taiwan. Hopefully, a transition can be built, with enough time lapse that China becomes more reasonable