June 12th 2018
Dear Mrs. Royce, Assistant Secretary of State:
It is a great pleasure to welcome you to Taiwan Province of China. However, we would like to make my stand very clear that any encouragement on your part for the current DDP administration to further drift away from China will be wrong and thus unwelcomed. Pursuing the path of Taiwan independence will only create confrontation between Taiwan and the Mainland, and put people from both sides in a precarious position.
This statement may come as a surprise to you or sound like an exaggeration, but historical precedents prove valid my point. Take Vietnam as an example. In 1954, upon the French surrender in Diên Biên Phu, Vietnam was about to be unified after long term division. For its own strategic interest in Asia, however, the American government forcefully interfered and pitted the puppet Southern Vietnam government against the Democratize Republic of Vietnam. Consequently, Vietnam suffered from two decades of brutal civil war, with millions of lives perished on both sides. Additionally, more than 50,000 young Americans died on foreign soil for their government’s reckless political move. As a result, antiwar cries roared in the United States and unsettled American society for decades. The American government eventually regretted its involvement in Vietnam and withdrew, leaving the souls of millions of died Vietnamese forever lingering in their ruined motherland.
Moreover, as the self-branded “world police,” the American government acted like a bully and gained every inch of its territory in dishonorable ways. It took the land from native Americans through genocide, seized much of Mexico through war, and then expanded into the Pacific with the annexation of Hawaii. Now, the United States has set its eyes on the West Pacific and plots to put the vast ocean under its control. For this purpose, it tries to block China’s access to the Pacific through East China Sea by maneuvering the Ryukyu islands and Taiwan.
Ryukyu used to be a peaceful small kingdom between China and Japan. Japan annexed Ryukyu islands in the 19th century, turning it into as a military base for further encroachment into China and Southeast Asia. When trying to bring the Pacific War to an end and force Japan to surrender, the Americans launched the Okinawa campaign, resulting in the loss of a quarter of Ryukyuan population. The American government is now doing exactly what imperial Japan had done in Ryukyu by setting up a military base there and putting Ryukyu again in a political hot zone. Is the United States going to make people in Ryukyu relive the tragedy of the Battle of Okinawa? Please convey the message to your government: withdraw from Ryukyu and spare the innocent people there!
As for Taiwan, only peaceful reunification with Mainland will guarantee its long term safety, stability, and wellbeing of its people. If the American government, for its own interest, supports the separatist government in Taiwan and provokes further conflicts with Mainland , people are going to suffer, and Taiwan will be in great danger. How can you expect such a gloomy scenario to not incur tremendous loss on your own nation?
As the most populous nation with the longest continuous civilization, China is at a glorious moment of national rejuvenation. It has ushered in an era of peace and prosperity, and unification
of Taiwan with the Mainland is the destined future. Any forceful resistance to this destiny is not
only to no avail, but also deliberately puts numerous innocent lives in great risk. The wounds in Vietnam are still fresh. Please do not repeat the mistake in the past, and stop your wrong policy in Taiwan before it is too late!
Best Regards
Chinese Unification Party
