I’ve offered personal sympathy to Mayor Ma in an earlier post, but God help Taiwan if the man were to ever become president.
For example, how many people outside of Taiwan know that Hizzonner is itching for a war with Taiwan’s ally, Japan? To be perfectly accurate, in June of this year he said that he wants a "battle to force a settlement" over the Senkakus Islands (which the Chinese refer to as the Diaoyutai chain).
Make no mistake: any "battle" with Japan would quickly become a WAR. One which Taiwan would start to lose within a short time. Then Hizzonner could conveniently petition his "Big Brother" in Beijing.
The price for help might be Taiwanese recognition of Chinese suzerainty, and abolition of Taiwanese democracy. Let’s face it, from the KMT’s point of view, what good has all this democracy stuff done for THEM, besides lose them the presidency in 2000 and 2004?