Please speak up for Taiwan where the media is controlled by pro-China forces

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/business/global/13straits.html?src=busln&pagewanted=all

Taiwan Weighs Trade Deal With Mainland By JONATHAN ADAMS


Dear Editor:

I appreciate your report on the ECFA debate. However, it seems too simplified to separate economy from politics. Especially, the author quoted Ma's words, "We can handle diplomatic isolation, ...but economic isolation is fatal.”

The irony is that Ma's KMT and its dictator Chiang Kei-sek begot Taiwan's diplomatic isolation by refusing to use Taiwan's name to join United Nation in 1971 and adopting "One China policy". Such diplomatic isolation has given more impetus to China's aggression towards Taiwan. Such diplomatic isolation has also over last several decades eroded Taiwan's opportunity for economical cooperation.

The contents of the ECFA are still in the black box, yet the framework looks like Taiwan's sovereignty is subordinated to China. If ECFA is truly good for Taiwan, why Ma and KMT are afraid of publishing its contents? One could be very curious, if Ma and KMT are not trading away Taiwan's sovereignty, why not sign a Free Trade Agreement(FTA) with China? People of Taiwan are all for economical progress, as long as the proposed ECFA does not fit Taiwan into the Hong Kong model.