What it might look like for China to annex Taiwan

Here is a good article by Li Thian-Hok 李天福 about what very likely will happen to Taiwan if it is annexed by China. Forewarned is forearmed.  It is time to act now before it is too late. We must work to prevent Taiwan from having to face such a terrible and unjust situation.

One key point made in the article worth repeating is that once China has annexed Taiwan, it will no longer feel the need to treat Macao and Hong Kong with any kind of leeway.  Even their freedoms that they still have will be taken away. To think about corrupt government officials of China's dictatorship getting their hands on what used to be classified as private property in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan really puts a perspective on the freedom that is at stake.

Brainwashed by Dictatorships

Here's an article about how even advanced degree students coming out of China and into the free world are still slaves of the system that brainwashed them.  So many cannot think rationally or analytically about their own country's atrocities.  This article also helps us understand why so many people in Taiwan would continue to support the KMT party despite all their past abuse of power.  

When the United States helped Eastern Europe after the Iron Curtain came down, they spent a lot of time helping them transform their thinking.  But because of their cozy relationship in the past with Chiang Kai-shek, and the propaganda that even penetrated American thinking, the U.S. did not treat the Taiwanese the same way, as people under a former authoritarian regime. They did not diligently lead in programs to help change the authoritarian culture into a democratic one.  Taiwan's democracy activists were left on their own with little resources or moral support from abroad.  And so many, if not the majority of Taiwanese did not make the transition to free thinking people taking responsibility for their own lives.