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Taiwan resident: Law impressive
By Cao Desheng, Alfons Chan (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-03-18 05:59
Lin Mingmei has a lot to say when it comes to the newly-passed Anti-Secession
Law.
She is most impressed by the simple fact that the law takes into
consideration the long-term well-being of the people on the island, said the
75-year-old Taiwanese woman. Lin has worked for a pharmaceutical research
institute in Beijing since 1953.
"It is doubtless that Taiwan is an integral part of China something my
father, a politically senseless man who devoted his life to traditional Chinese
medicine in Taiwan, told me since I was a child," Lin told China Daily.
However, due to Taiwan secessionists' distortion of history in recent years,
some people misunderstand the mainland's policies towards cross-Straits
relations, she said.
"The Anti-Secession Law sets out detailed measures to promote peace and
stability in the Straits, such as encouraging and facilitating personnel,
economic and cultural exchanges across the Straits. It will effectively oppose
and check Taiwan's secession from China," Lin said.
Lin voiced her support for the adoption of the law at a forum held by the
All-China Federation of Trade Unions in Beijing yesterday.
Lin, who is the honorary director of the Pharmaceutical Institute of the
Beijing Health Bureau, frequently flies to Taiwan to visit her relatives or
promote exchanges between medical workers on both sides of the Straits.
Communication and exchanges are very important in allowing Taiwan people to
know more about the mainland, she said.
Trade union representatives in the capital city also defended the new law at
the forum, saying it is simply a legal document to maintain peace in the Straits
and will contribute to national reunification.
Yang Feng, vice-chairman of the Trade Unions of the Beijing Haohua Energy
Resource Co Ltd, described the Anti-Secession Law as "a law of peace, stability
and rejuvenation."
The law stipulates the State encourages and facilitates all the activities
that are conducive to peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits, he said.
Bill aimed at peace
The Anti-Secession Law is conducive to national unity and cross-Straits
peace, representatives of Hong Kong youth groups said yesterday.
"The law is restrained and flexible. Its objective is to ease tensions and
maintain peace. That's why it does not set out a clear timetable for
reunification," Kennedy Wong, chairman of the Hong Kong Taiwan Youth Exchange
Promotion Association, said at a forum in Hong Kong.
He stressed that the provisions of the law make it clear that the Taiwan
question is an internal issue of China that brooks no foreign intervention.
Wong, a lawyer by profession, said Hong Kong should actively support the bill
and its implementation.
"We should promote increased dialogue and communication between the youths of
Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland to push forward efforts towards
reunification," he said, adding that the law provides a legal basis for enhanced
cross-Straits relations and consensus.
Other youth group representatives also expressed support for the bill, adding
that Hong Kong could play an important role in furthering the development of
cross-Straits relations.
The young people of Hong Kong should promote more unity and communication
across the Straits under the framework established by the Anti-Secession Law,
and dispel tensions and misunderstandings to achieve peaceful reunification,
participants agreed.
(China Daily 03/18/2005 page2)
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