Taiwan News
Editorial
Date: 2015-11-05
By: Lin Yi-shen, Taiwan News, Contributing Writer

Provided that there are no mishaps, President Ma Ying-jeou will get what he wants – a

Opinion: Ma digs his own grave. Central News Agency

meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore this coming Saturday. Not only will Ma make history, he is bound to drag the Kuomintang down to demise and into oblivion.

For the past seven years, Ma’s self-centeredness and egoistic ways have put the nation and its people struggling to make ends meet, whose well-being are being jeopardized as they fair the worst economic turmoil since Ma’s tenure in office. In hindsight, he’d rather forego the dignity and respect of the people by kowtowing to the Chinese.

To those familiar with international affairs and cross-strait relations, Ma’s premeditated trip to Singapore is nothing but another of his shoddy deals with Beijing, and a so-called “black-box” process conducted under the table.     [FULL  STORY]