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Jeff Geer 2003/05/14

Laws of Occupation and a Taiwan status under SFPT

Stephen Murray has provided an excellent book review of Chinese scholastic performances on the 2-28 Incident. There is ample evidence of things that should be carefully researched into more minute detail but then Chinese reunificationists want to just keep sweeping Taiwan history under the rug. The WUFI website has an excellent article of former Chairman on Taiwan Status in 1971. But it only begins to dig into the Laws of Occupation and a Taiwan status under SFPT. If you really want to open the Pandora's Box of Taiwan history, then look at the civil affairs administration that Kerr and Dulles put into motion and Kissenger and Holbrooke have continued. In the English translation of the Chen Yi speech made on October 25, 1945, in Japanese territory (Taiwan), Lt. Kerr most carefully inserted a reference to "joint occupation" by US Military Government, Allied Powers, and ROC. Read the SFPT, read the WUFI website...then reread that book by Lt. George Kerr:

http://www.faoa.org/journal/asia1201.html

Being too Chinese is like suffering from historical amnesia and you need more than one perspective. If you agree to poor research standards by Chinese intellectuals and 2-28 research, then one's own ignorance of Taiwanese history is only to blame. However, you cannot bury the past because too many Taiwan Questions do not rest in peace under SFPT. The principal occupational authority of General MacArthur just faded away but it did not die for SFPT's "autonomous separate customs territory" under the Laws of War. Civil affairs administration by an exiled government is a missing link of SFPT history for American policy on the Taiwan cession.

Regards,
Jeff Geer
http://www.taiwanstatus.org

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