Eyck Freymann

Now, that question continues.

The Kuomintang, the KMT, which is the successor of Chiang Kai-shek's party, they believe that there are still the legitimate representatives of the true China.

Well, they recognize that there's a free China and an unfree China.

And I think they've long since given up their aspirations of raising an army and going back across the strait and taking over the mainland.

But I think they have an aspiration that one day this divided China can be unified.

either in some kind of confederation structure or who knows, maybe with the KMT on top.

And they identify culturally, historically, civilizationally as Chinese.

They say, we're Chinese, we just happen to live on Taiwan, but we're one civilization, one nation.

And the KMT's point of view is that we, one China, respective interpretations.

And on that basis, Beijing is willing to talk to them.

Because they disagree about what one China means, but they both believe in principle that there is only one China in the world and Taiwan's part of it.

But the current ruling party in Taiwan, the Democratic Progressive Party or the DPP, they have a different perspective.

They say, we are a country called Taiwan.

We're one of the most technologically advanced places in the world.

We are a thriving democracy.

The world needs our chips.

We are at the center of this security architecture.

We are a distinct nation, and we should be recognized by the world as such.

And they're not suicidal.

They're not crazy.