Talk:2005 Pan–Blue visits to mainland China

KMT does not endorce "One Country, Two Systems"

or at least that's what I remember. It does endorce "One China", but that's different to "One Country, Two Systems". --Sumple (Talk) 03:28, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Inconsistencies

I'm having trouble sourcing the following facts in the article, so I'm going to edit them; this is here to provide a better record than edit comments:

Chiang Kai-shek International Airport

Outside the airport, Taiwan independence advocate Su Ming led many pan-Green supporters to use taxis to form a blockade on the highway, preventing Lien from reaching the airport, but they were repelled by the police. Su Ming and his followers then tried to light firecrackers in the terminal, and were later arrested.

(1) Roland Soong's blog post The Big Brawl in Taipei states the taxis tried to prevent the motorcade from heading to the airport, but does not provide a name for the leader.

(2) The same blog post does go on to state that Shi Ming (is this the same Taiwan independence advocate as Shih Ming-teh?) sets off firecrackers in front of the entrance to the departure hall. It is possible that the current name in this article is misspelled, but I can't locate Soong's original sources (dead links to Yahoo!/Taiwan News) to confirm.

(3) Same blog post states Shi Ming was NOT arrested.

Nanjing

Lien delivered a short speech upon arrival, saying "Taipei and Nanjing are not too distant, but it still took 60 years to come here.19 It certainly took too long to make the journey."

(4) The current linked reference attributes a different form of the statement to one of Lien's aides, not Lien himself. 'Joanna Lei, who is accompanying Lien on his ground-breaking journey, said the weather change is symbolic, and she sensed history in the making: "It would have taken just two and half hours from Taipei to Nanjing by direct flight, but we took 50-60 years."' It makes an excellent soundbite, but I don't have a source that attributes this directly to Lien.

Found a source! Added to main article. -- Mliu92 (talk) 17:15, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Beijing

He mentioned that both Hu Shih and former Taiwan University president Fu Sinian had graduated from Peking University, then worked at Taiwan University and spread liberalism there. "Therefore, in terms of liberalism, both Peking University and Taiwan University are born from the same root. Especially in mainland China, it can be said that it's a bastion of freedom." But a proportion of Taiwanese students disagreed, saying both Hu and Fu were fierce opponents of communism in favour of freedom of education, thus the two universities can't be compared, and protested outside the front gate.

(5) No source could be found for this statement in the speech. Contemporary coverage of the Beijing speech suggests that if this was said, it wasn't the main theme of the speech, which praised both Deng Xiaoping and Chiang Ching-Kuo and encouraged cooperation between Taiwan and China to ensure peace.

There is a small quote that does suggest this may have been mentioned, though: "Speaking to an audience of 600 Peking University students and staff yesterday morning, Lien began his speech praising the contributions the university and Chinese intellectuals had made to political reform in China."

Reactions

Western political analysts have compared the handshake of Lien and Hu Jintao to that of Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat.

(6) The only analysis I could find was one by William Jones in Executive Intelligence Review (PDF link; see page 56), and it doesn't mention Rabin or Arafat.

-- Mliu92 (talk) 17:01, 19 November 2014 (UTC)