Give me Liberty or..

“Give me liberty or give me death!” quoted by Patrick Henry. This is a very classical quote that all American will be passionate about. Through shedding bloods of young American patriots and battles with Britain, America finally won its dependence in 1776. According to Americans, it is freedom and liberty that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for. Since the independence war, United States of America forever becomes a living symbol for a land of liberty and democracy.

        In the world today, words like “Freedom”, ”Democracy”, and “Human rights” are still often heard in places on earth such as Afghanistan, China and other unrest regions. For people in Taiwan, our political status in the world is very complex and uncertain. As Taiwanese, we lived in a democratic country where people have freedom of speech, freedom of petition, freedom of religion, and many freedom that are shared among democratic places. However, our international political status is very uncertain that even democratic countries like USA and Japan fail to recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation. With China’s pressure in the UN, Taiwan fails to enter as a UN member and is often considered as a province of china. Unable to be globally recognized as a country, we fail to obtain true liberty and freedom. It will be quite difficult for Taiwan to be “officially” independent unless we have a war with PROC or we can wait for PROC to collapse like the Soviet Union, which is unlikely in the near future.