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Viewing cable 08AITTAIPEI104, MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM, U.S.-TAIWAN

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08AITTAIPEI104 2008-01-22 08:43 2011-08-23 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED American Institute Taiwan, Taipei
VZCZCXYZ0015
RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHIN #0104/01 0220843
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 220843Z JAN 08
FM AIT TAIPEI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7963
INFO RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 7764
RUEHHK/AMCONSUL HONG KONG 9024
UNCLAS AIT TAIPEI 000104 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR INR/R/MR, EAP/TC, EAP/PA, EAP/PD - NIDA EMMONS 
DEPARTMENT PASS AIT/WASHINGTON 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM, U.S.-TAIWAN 
RELATIONS 
 
1. Summary:   Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news 
coverage January 19-22 on the various steps taken by the DPP to 
review and remedy itself in the wake of its severe defeat in the 
January 12 legislative elections; on the KMT's selection of its 
nominee for the new deputy legislative speaker; and on the March 
presidential election.  In terms of editorials and commentaries, an 
editorial in the pro-unification "United Daily News" slammed 
President Chen Shui-bian for manipulating the elections by 
"bundling" them with referenda.  The article said the UN referendum 
in March will be viewed again by most voters as a no-confidence vote 
against Chen.  An editorial in the pro-independence, 
English-language "Taiwan News," on the other hand, criticized the 
United States for blindly subordinating its foreign policy to 
Beijing and pressuring the DPP government not to create any trouble 
for Washington.  The article concluded by saying that "A U.S. 
administration that puts appeasement of the demands of authoritarian 
states over the preservation of genuinely democratic allies has 
little legitimacy to claim true global leadership."  End summary. 
 
2. Taiwan's UN Referendum 
 
"Are [We] Still Going to Eat the Spoiled Rice Called 'UN 
Referendum?'" 
 
The pro-unification "United Daily News" [circulation: 400,000] 
editorialized (1/19): 
 
"... Referenda have become a pot of spoiled rice following the 
January 12 legislative elections, which were held simultaneously 
with two referenda.  But it is not over yet; there are referenda on 
Taiwan's bid to 'join and re-join the UN,' which will be held in 
tandem with the March 22 presidential election.  Chen Shui-bian, as 
usual, will spend hundreds of millions in government funds to bring 
this pot of spoiled rice to the Taiwan people, regardless of whether 
we like it or not or have the appetite for it or not.  But is this 
spot of spoiled rice still edible? 
 
"The UN referendum will not get [Taiwan] into the UN; Chen already 
said that nothing will happen [in the wake of the referendum].  The 
UN referendum will not change [the Republic of China] into the 
'nation of Taiwan'; Frank Hsieh said everything will be back to 
square one [after the UN referendum]. The UN referendum has done 
serious damage to mutual trust between Taipei and Washington, and it 
has torn Taiwan society apart.  As described above, the UN 
referendum will again tolerate Chen and allow him to violate the 
Constitution, the law, and his [vow to] stay administratively 
neutral, and it will allow him to strip the [Taiwan people] ... of 
their dignity.  In addition, it is already predictable that the UN 
referendum will fail to pass, just like the two referenda held on 
January 12.  Referenda are such a holy practice, but Chen has 
brought them down to such a state!  Most voters will continue to 
regard the DPP's UN referendum on March 22 as a no-confidence vote 
against Chen. ..." 
 
3. U.S.-Taiwan Relations 
 
"Washington Lacks Legitimacy in Policy on Taiwan" 
 
The pro-independence, English-language "Taiwan News" [circulation: 
20,000] editorialized (1/22): 
 
"... In recent years, the Democratic Progressive Party government of 
President Chen Shui-bian has been censured and sanctioned by the 
Republican administration of U.S. President George W. Bush for 
undertaking initiatives to deepen and defend our democracy, 
including advocating constitutional reforms, instituting and holding 
referenda and proposing to join the United Nations.  After an 
initially supportive stance toward Taiwan's democracy, the Bush 
administration has gradually subordinated its foreign policy to that 
of Beijing's by acting in the PRC's stead to pressure the DPP 
government to 'not make trouble' for Washington as it conducts its 
'war on terror' or its war against Iraq, regardless of Taiwan's own 
interests and problems. 
 
"Hence, Washington has evidently never considered the feelings of 
Taiwan citizens when it metes out humiliating treatment to the 
democratically elected Taiwan president in transit stops or engages 
in direct and open criticism of democratic processes, such as the 
scheduled U.N. referendum.  The latest example of U.S. blindness was 
displayed by the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte 
during a visit to Beijing January 18, when he continued to criticize 
the DPP-initiated referendum on applying for U.N. membership under 
the name of Taiwan. ... 
 
"Moreover, Negroponte's statement shows that Washington has also 
failed to realize that parameters of Taiwan's political and security 
situation have changed dramatically in the wake of the January 12 
Legislative Yuan elections, in which the KMT snared an overwhelming 
RELATIONS 
 
three-fourths majority.  Negroponte and U.S. policy makers who share 
his view seem blind to the implications of the very real prospect 
that the KMT may be able to re-establish its former one-party 
monopoly rule, and that the KMT's restoration will tilt Taiwan's 
political and economic policy framework in the PRC's direction and 
perhaps even accelerate 'ultimate unification.' ... 
 
"U.S. officials should ask themselves whether they will be worried 
by the restoration to monopoly power of an openly 'China-centric' 
party which may well be inclined to 'lean to one side' in favor of 
the PRC in the case of disagreements between Washington and Beijing. 
 They should also consider what kind of message their appeasement of 
the restoration of a former authoritarian party, along with [that 
party's] service to Beijing in suppressing Taiwan's democratic 
progress, will send to the world, including democracy activists in 
Hong Kong or China itself. 
 
"A U.S. administration that puts appeasement of the demands of 
authoritarian states over the preservation of genuinely democratic 
allies has little legitimacy to claim true global leadership. We can 
only hope that the American people will seek to rebuild their 
country's reputation as a defender of democracy, freedom, justice 
and responsibility under a new U.S. president, and that the revival 
of American moral courage will not come too late to save a 
democratic Taiwan." 
 
WANG