YeFu believes Taiwan’s transition to democracy ought to be used as a model when the CCP falls
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/01/05
By: Ryan Drillsma, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Renowned Chinese novelist and poet Zheng Shiping (鄭世
Zheng Shiping (YeFu) (By Central News Agency)
平), more often known by his penname YeFu (也夫), has said China ought to use Taiwan as a model for democratic transition.
CNA reports the author recently penned an article that states the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has lost the ability to correct its own mistakes, after witnessing many of the countless calamities it has caused over the past 70 years.
Only by consigning itself to the annals of history, Zheng wrote, can the party allow the people’s fundamental interests be restored. But if the public is unwilling to speak out, he conceded, they are not ready to see the end China’s autocracy.
Zheng suggested China looks to how Taiwan relinquished its one-party dictatorship as an example. He stressed that if there was no democratic opposition fighting for freedom, Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國) would have never made the decisions that led Taiwan along its transition to democracy. [FULL STORY]
