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As far as I know the KMT's Hou and TPP's Ko have not published anything similar -- I've been busy and in poor health recently, so if I've missed something let me know -- but Foxconn chairman, Guy Who Wants To Be President and all-around massive asshole Terry Gou has, in the Washington Post . Again, you can read a summary on RTI , including a response by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It's exactly what you'd expect: we need the One China framework as a means to push forward talks with China, accepting the
This isn't the dastardly DPP's doing. It's the general consensus of the Taiwanese electorate. I recommend reading the whole thread, but here's my favorite bit:
10/ (a) Taiwan is supposed to take control of its destiny ... by annexing itself to a giant expansionist power. History has no examples of states swallowed by a much larger power "taking control of their destiny" ..