China envoy's trip to Taiwan still on despite attack

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China's top negotiator on Taiwan policy said a trip to the island was still on despite this week's attack on a visiting Chinese official and Taiwan suggested that the visit will start in two weeks. <br/>

Zhang Mingqing, vice chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, was pushed to the ground on Tuesday by anti-China activists on a visit to southern Taiwan. A day earlier he was heckled by about 200 demonstrators, telling him to go back to China.
China has claimed sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949. Beijing has vowed to bring the island back under mainland rule, by force if necessary.
Zhang cut short his trip short by one day, flying back to China on Wednesday, throwing into doubt the timing of a visit by China's top negotiator, Chen Yunlin.

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Typical stupid and pathetic pan green supporters. They're minds are so warped by the pan green rhetoric that this is what they do.
Many pan green believe that the government is "selling out" it's sovereignty by instigating direct flights between the island and the mainland - standing in the way of economic and political progress.
Fact, no one is selling out the island state I have no idea where these idiots get their news from but there is no sell out. Such flights should be welcomed.
Sharing an identical cultural, linguistic and ancestral heritage as the mainland but none of the totalitarian clout, Taiwan is the state that should have the most significant advantage over all other regional competitors. Yet because of a power strife by a certain group of people that rely on ethnic division to remain in power takes the opposite route; instead of having the geopolitical advantage would be as good as on another planet.
And now, the true colors of cowardice of this group are showing - the violent attack against a foreign dignitary. For shame

 

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Still, I'd rather have them protest than not. It's a demonstration of free speech.

 

[tlmorg02]

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Typical stupid and pathetic pan green supporters. They're minds are so warped by the pan green rhetoric that this is what they do.
Many pan green believe that the government is "selling out" it's sovereignty by instigating direct flights between the island and the mainland - standing in the way of economic and political progress.
Fact, no one is selling out the island state I have no idea where these idiots get their news from but there is no sell out. Such flights should be welcomed.
Sharing an identical cultural, linguistic and ancestral heritage as the mainland but none of the totalitarian clout, Taiwan is the state that should have the most significant advantage over all other regional competitors. Yet because of a power strife by a certain group of people that rely on ethnic division to remain in power takes the opposite route; instead of having the geopolitical advantage would be as good as on another planet.
And now, the true colors of cowardice of this group are showing - the violent attack against a foreign dignitary. For shame

I understand your aggrevation, and I think that by increasing interaction, Taiwan could be the key to pushing democracy in China. By becoming involved with mainland affairs, Taiwan would be twice benefitted, as tensions would ease and the sharing of moderate ideas could serve to help move Chinese policies.