China's Taiwan solution: Anschluss

[dArKeR]

By Chen Ching-chih ???

Thursday, Mar 18, 2004,Page 8

On March 13, 1938, Austrians were preparing to vote on whether Austria should be annexed by Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, they did not get to exercise their fundamental right due to the fact that Adolf Hitler's storm troopers had entered and occupied an independent, sovereign Austria the day before the vote.

Sixty-six years later in Taiwan, there is a national "defensive" referendum scheduled simultaneously with a direct presidential election on Saturday. The referendum issue has, however, become the most debated issue in the nation. Opposing the referendum, the pan-blue alliance of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and People First Party(PFP) has essentially called for a boycott. Their rationale is that there is no need for a defensive referendum at a time when China's military threat is not imminent.

When will it be the right time for a "defensive" referendum? When Beijing is ready to invade or has already started the military attack as the pan-blue camp has suggested? Will that be way too late? Maybe we can come up with some sort of an answer by reviewing Germany's Anschluss, or annexation, of Austria before World War II.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=103

[Kagemusha]

1. I thought that answer was called the US 7th Fleet.

Just my humble memory speaking.

[Merlin]

2. Link doesn't work.

I'd like to read this, but the link is faulty.

[dArKeR]

3. Link

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/03/18/2003106827

Sorry, I goofed.