Last Saturday on January 13th, Taiwan had witnessed the coming of its fourth democratically elected president. I count it the way I see after the term of Li Denghui. A bitter truth for me, as Chinese mainlander, is that the Tiananmen Square protest in China was one big drive for the democratic reform in Taiwan. What we have failed on this side, they succeeded in replace. And I suddenly have an intuition that if we mainlander had succeeded in 1989, perhaps Taiwan was already a province of China today. No offence, to Taiwanese, I totally understand their stance now. I’m just a little bit jealous. But I do, as I present you a mindset as mainlander, I do have a different opinion on Taiwan’s justification on being a nation because I think Taiwan is in all way of Chinese identity, except politically aspect. At least, the national palace museum in Taibei says this idea to me. If they really wanna cut off, at least they should vacant their national museum and return all the contents to Beijing. I’m just joking. And in a way, im’ showing you, putting aside the propaganda, why Chinese find it absurd about the independence of Taiwan. And if you really count it as a nation, it would be a relatively new one, with less than 20 years of history. That's why China is eager to reunify it before time tempers the general subconsciousness.So what’s the current effect of Taiwan presidential election to mainland Chinese? Similar to that of American, we are both impressed by their fully democratic process. I know some of you American use the example of Taiwan’s election to mock your owns (representative precincts). As a Chinese, I'd say that if one day I could choose, I indeed prefer Taiwan’s way of election to that of America’s.You’ve already known your bug, but you’re not allowed to change. Don’t you feel a sort of authoritarian inside, American? I’m joking. No offence.Back to Chinese, in fact, most Chinese who really care Taiwan’s issue had already felt that Lai QingDe (the newly elected) would win before the campaign. And the rest who doesn’t care were actually torn by the stocks market in China, which plummeted several days in a straight, triggering outrage among most common stocks buyers who accused finally that the exchange was a lie made by the government. Some wrote protesting script on the floor, and some left a punch of fist mark on the bronze bull in front of the exchange. And recently, people in China have somehow reached the consensus that Chinese economy is falling, more and more people are losing confidence to China’s economic outlook, and also losing the trust to statistics provided by Chinese government. This is actually a bad news for Taiwan, you know, when the economy is unsolvable, a war would be used to shift the blame.

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