President Ma Ying-jeou on Sunday said his efforts to ease nearly six decades of hostilities that have occasionally brought Taiwan to the brink of war with China, have paid off.
The two split in 1949 at the end of a civil war, and tensions between them flared frequently during the eight years the island was ruled by the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party until Ma of the China-friendly Kuomintang took office in May.
"Taiwan is no longer a troublemaker but a peacemaker," Ma said on a visit to the central Taichung county.
No longer a "troublemaker!" That's what Taiwan's governor--or president if you want to get all technical about it--thinks Taiwan has been! How dare the past Taiwan government assert its right to be left alone by the giant to the west!
