With more than two million Taiwanese living on the mainland and some 400,000 mainland Chinese in Taiwan, plus several million mainlanders visiting Taiwan, the two sides must further boost their interactions and relations.
We have to convince mainland China that a free and democratic Taiwan is more in China's interest than reunification.
Cooperation is more important than reunification. If reunification is achieved without cooperation, it will be meaningless.
The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.
The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.
For the world's four Chinese-speaking regions - Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China - the longer the colonization, the more advanced a place is.
