Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews The Presidential election of the Republic of China (Taiwan) finished a few days ago. It's impact, however, is still strong on both sides of the strait. Netizens in Mainland China are showing high regard for the defeat speech made by DPP candidate Tsai Ing-wen. They said it brings a "democratic feeling", and are criticizing that there are no checks and balances in Mainland China. Tsai Ing-wen said in her defeat speech: "Taiwan needs opposition. Taiwan needs checks and balances." Then she announced to resign the position of DPP chairman. Those words continue to be forwarded on micro-blogs in Mainland China. Many netizens agree with Tsai's words, and were moved because it has a "democratic feeling". They criticized the 18th National People's Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for having no democracy. Many netizens said, the reason why there's no real election in China is all the opposing voices are stopped. The CCP's "maintaining stability" makes it impossible to make any sound of checks and balances. Zhao Yuanming, a Chinese issues' expert analyzed the situation. Although Ma Ying-jeou, Tsai Ing-wen and James Soong are political opponents, all of them have the same goal. Their goal is for Taiwan people. They gave a sincere wish to the winner. This is a fundamental difference compared to CCP officials. Zhao Yuanming: "In Mainland China, there's only one party. Just for having different opinions or belonging to different groups, officials use their power to put their rivals to death. In fact, they compete for power to meet their personal interests." Many netizens said they were "shocked". The biggest gap between both sides of strait is not only that one side is queuing to vote, while the other side is queuing to buy train tickets, but "the ballot stands for dignity and human rights, while it's humiliation and struggle in the train ticket." They questioned "can 18th People's Congress have such a scene like Taiwan election?" Some netizens even imitated a movie title to make a quote "Those years, we are watching others to vote." They express their feeling of helplessness that there's no Democracy in Mainland China. Media in Mainland China gave rare attention to the Taiwan election recently. The re-election of Ma Ying-jeou was front page news for "Beijing News", "Beijing Times" and "Beijing Morning Post." The CCP's official newspaper "People's Daily" did a brief report on the right side of front page. However, it seems Ma Ying-jeou didn't buy into this attention. On January 15th, the second day of the election, Ma Ying-jeou met with Douglas Paal, former director of American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), and other Americans to express that Taiwan still wants to purchase the F16C/D fighters. They need another round of U.S. arms' sales. In addition, the CCP mouthpiece, "Global Times" reported printed a report on January 13th. The article was entitled "Mainland's mind can't be full of Taiwan issues". It said that no matter who becomes Taiwan's president tomorrow, the election shouldn't be the most important government transition in Mainland China. The most important one should be CCP's 18th Congress. Xie Tian, a professor from University of South Carolina, U.S, commented."In fact, it reflects precisely that CCP deeply fears the smooth and peaceful Taiwan democratic election. The winner of [Taiwan election] is very clean and clear, the loser is very decent.'Global Times' threw out these comments because CCP always told people Taiwan democracy was disorganized. It told people that democracy isn't suitable for Chinese." "Global Times" said: "There's an anxious feeling in China's society, the progress of which we can't control. It brings constant threat." Professor Xie Tian commented that there is sadness for the "Global Times" owner, speaking out in fear. He pointed out that the biggest issue in China isn't caused by Taiwan, it's from the internal system, it's because of the CCP. NTD Reporters: Liu Hui, Wang Ziqi and Bo Ni 《神韵》2011世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/

• published: 17 Jan 2012
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