Seth Cropsey and Harry Halem’s op-ed “The Real Threat to Taiwan” (June 3) exposes a longstanding problem in U.S. analysis of international affairs. Many fail to recognize that Taiwanese political dynamics extend beyond cross-Strait relations, encompassing the holistic well-being of its citizenry. Taiwan has its own political landscape that can’t be oversimplified with Western-centric viewpoints.
If the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party are in fact part of a Chinese Communist fifth column in Taiwan, looking at the results of the January elections, are some 60% of Taiwanese thereby supportive of being subjugated by the Communists? Of course not, and Messrs. Cropsey and Halem admit that “there is no direct evidence of the Communist Party’s orchestration in Taiwan’s legislature.”
