Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit. |
To communist China, insisting on our country's sovereignty and dignity and seeking recognition from the international community are moves advocating separatism and independence, |
to shake hands for reconciliation and rational talks. |
Today, I would like to take advantage of the establishment of the DPU to take another step and propose the formation of a 'new balance of power in the Pacific Ocean' on the foundations of this 'new balance of power in the Taiwan Strait, |
unified, stable, prosperous and progressive. |
We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution. |
we are brave Taiwanese, hard-working Taiwanese, and dignified Taiwanese. |
We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations. |
We don't intend to aggressively expand our military or engage in an arms race, and I earnestly urge the Chinese communists to give up your military threat against us and seek to replace conflict with dialogue, |
We first have dinner together and then we go back home to change clothes. So when we go out for fun on the weekend, it's usually already after 11pm or 12am. If all the discos and karaoke bars must be closed after 2am, it's like a party is suddenly ended before it officially warms up. |
We have had a long wait for democracy. |
We have no intention to change the status quo, but nor do we allow the status quo being forced to change. We want to maintain a status quo of peace and stability instead of one of missile deployment and military threat. |
We hope our country will not be torn apart by a single election, |
We must be clear that each side [of the Strait] is a [separate] country, ... Taiwan must go down its own road. |
We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior. |