Tuesday, November 14, 2006

What if we were given another opportunity, would it be different, would we choose a whole different path?

These days the television was full of political news about Taiwan's corrupted president Chen Shuibian. People are parading to ask him to resign, which would be impossible a few years earlier.

Before 2000 or so, Taiwan was not very different from Main Land China in political forms. There was only one party running the politics -- Kuo Ming Dang. It was an one party rule in Taiwan as it is still now in China. But the last president of Kuo Ming Dang -- Li Denghui changed everything. He ended the one party political structure in Taiwan, clearing all political obstacles and introducing the democratic system in this island. Chen Shuibian and his party took that chance and made the presidency in Taiwan. It seems to me that Li Denghui was like former leader of Soviet Union, Gorbachev. They both ended the future of their own party and led their country into a very different path.

The details of how they did that was not very clear to me and I will keep studying in this issue. My concern here is: "if one day someone like Li and Gorbachev appears in China, people were given another choice, what path would they choose?"

In my opinion, this question is not quit absurd because the history always repeats.

But what would I do, if I were given the power to change everything?

That is a question.

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