Chinese ultranationalists in Taiwan must be having conniptions right
about now – all their efforts to rehabilitate the notion of "One China"
shot to hell by the outbreak of violence in Chinese-occupied Tibet. And only a week before the presidential election too, when the KMT was already feeling the heat for advocating a "One China" common market.
As for Taiwan’s younger generation, the ones for whom Tiananmen
Square is ancient history, current events must be a bit of an
eye-opener. We’re all children of the Yellow Emperor, the KMT propaganda machine tirelessly drummed into their heads…