President Lai Says China Cannot Be Taiwan's 'Motherland'｜TaiwanPlus News

President Lai Ching-te's comments that China cannot be Taiwan's motherland are proving controversial, with opposition lawmakers calling his words needlessly provocative. 

📹 Reporter(s): Ryan Wu/Louise Watt

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[ranx]

What is true is republic of China is the mother land of Taiwan and that’s still China. So as much as he wants to stir up the tension and cause Taiwanese more problem just know only 40 percent of the Taiwanese actually voted for him.

[AACC-nc]

What Lai said basically is ROC represents all of China since its older than PRC. Actually both are a part of China ie Zhonghua minzu  中华民族. And this includes Taiwan

[sava]

This is our president!! We are so proud of it.

[choonhockong]

President Lai is a hero of Taiwan. Make it clear to China and the US that Taiwan is an independent country. Taiwan is protected by the US and its western allies, plus Japan. Taiwan is a rich country with advanced chips, etc. See how China would react?😂

[TingMo-ni]

Lai is speeding up China’s reunification of Taiwan with China's mainland.

[med]

President Lai said what’s on Taiwanese citizens’ minds 🙌🙌

[kampoengbatoe]

Should not be a surprise. Lai's motherland is India.

[f-lightningii]

Israel: saying People's Republic of China belong to Mainland Russia..😂😂😂
China: why?
Israel: Taiwan don't part of China.. 🤣🤣🤣

[anthonypcheng]

ROC name has been since around 1910, which is much earlier than the 1949 founding of "PROC", which is correct to say there is no way PROC is older than ROC, and absolutely can't be "motherland" of ROC.

He also said ROC could be the motherland of people over the age of 75 in PROC or China mainland, which is correct.

Interestingly enough, regardless of being People's Republic or Republic of China, regardless of which side deserves the call of motherland, both uses and shares the name "C" or "China", at least constitutionally by both sides.

I would say that's the factual common ground, regardless which side of political spectrum or system you agree or disagree with.

[tkm-dr]

This headline is misleading. Lai specifically said the PRC could not be the motherland of ROC. Why? Because the ROC was much older than the PRC.

Furthermore by stating the ROC as 113 years old, he affirmed that ROC-on-TW was the continuation of ROC-on-mainland.

Lai is President of ROC, which does not recognize the PRC.

At the same time, he also misspoke because as President of ROC, he should not be directly mentioning the PRC. He should had referred PRC as the Beijing/CCP/Mainland regime.

In earlier times, ROC-on-TW referred to the CCP as Communist Bandits. 😊😊