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來源：紐約時報部落格

全文網址：http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/in-taiwan-chinese
-official-confronted-with-voices-of-democracy/

縮網址：http://tinyurl.com/n6htjwk


In Taiwan, Chinese Official Confronted With Voices of Democracy
在台灣，中國官員面對民主聲音
By AUSTIN RAMZY  JUNE 27, 2014 5:50 AM

［A demonstrator scuffled with the police on Friday during Zhang Zhijun's
visit to Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s second-largest city.］
本週五張志軍訪問高雄（台灣第二大城市）時，一名示威者與警方發生扭打。


Zhang Zhijun, the highest-ranking Chinese official to visit Taiwan, has said
he wanted to hear the voices of its people during his four-day trip to the
self-governed island. Demonstrators in Taiwan have tried to meet that request,
following him since the start of his visit on Wednesday. And while the
official meetings have been less confrontational, with talk of increasing
trade and travel across the Taiwan Strait, some local leaders have also
talked up Taiwan's democratic values, a sharp contrast with Communist-ruled
China, which considers Taiwan as part of its territory.




On Friday morning, Mr. Zhang, who heads China's Taiwan Affairs Office, met
with Chen Chu, the mayor of the southern city of Kaohsiung. A founding member
of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, she was jailed in the 1980s
for opposing martial law. At a news conference after their hourlong meeting,
Ms.Chen made reference to the struggle to end authoritarian rule in Taiwan.

"Taiwan's democracy didn't fall from the heavens," she said. "Rather it was
something the people of Taiwan fought for."



While not using the word "democracy" expressly, Mr. Zhang said that China's
leadership knows that Taiwan's people value their own system. "We know that
the people of Taiwan truly cherish their own social system and way of life,
and the mainland respects the people of Taiwan’s own choices in their social
system, values and way of life."



Taiwan has been ruled separately from the Chinese mainland since the Chiang
Kai-shek's forces fled there after the Communist victory in the civil war in
1949. While Beijing continues to claim sovereignty over Taiwan and has said
it would not tolerate a formal declaration of independence, the intervening
decades have seen the emergence of a full democracy on the island.



Mr. Zhang's trip follows a breakthrough trip by his counterpart from Taiwan,
Wang Yu-chi, the head of the Mainland Affairs Council, to Nanjing in February.
Mr. Zhang had originally been scheduled to travel to Taiwan in April, but his
trip was postponed after student demonstrators occupied Taiwan's Legislature
to protest efforts by the governing party, the Kuomintang, to ratify a trade
bill with China. That occupation, which became known as the Sunflower Movement
,inspired large street protests in Taipei. Many demonstrators said they were
worried that the rapid increase in trade ties with the mainland would give
China greater influence over Taiwan.



On this visit, Mr. Zhang has attempted to ease concerns and present a softer
image of Chinese officialdom, meeting with students and senior citizens and
offer a greeting in Taiwanese to his hosts upon his arrival on Wednesday.

關於這次訪問，張志軍一直試圖表現中國官方對台灣一般人民的關心並建立一個柔和的
形象，包括與（盲校）學生、老年人接觸參訪，並在週三時邀請一些台灣學者會面。

"Zhang Zhijun's Taiwan trip is more of a P.R. thing than a real, substantial
policy tour," said Titus C. Chen, an associate research fellow at National
Chengchi University’s Institute of International Relations in Taipei. "His
agenda in Taiwan is to give the people, the government and the politicians in
Taiwan more of a positive image of China."



Mr. Zhang has also been trying to build closer relations with local leaders,
including Ms. Chen of the independence-leaning D.P.P., which has not organized
any large protests against his visit. President Ma Ying-jeou, who was not
scheduled to meet with Mr. Zhang, has seen his popularity plummet over the
past year. While the next presidential election is still two years away, some
political analysts say Mr. Ma's woes could pose difficulties for any
Kuomintang candidate and increase the possibility of an opposition victory.
The Chinese government thus wants to forge ties with opposition figures like
Ms. Chen, who visited China last year.




"The Chinese government has this feeling that the D.P.P. might win the
election in 2016, so they have to be prepared for that kind of scenario,"
Mr. Chen said.

陳至潔說：「中國政府有感於民進黨可能在2016年的選舉中獲勝，所以他們必須對那種
狀況預作準備。」

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