Talk:2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China

KMT does not endorce "One Country, Two Systems"

or at least that's what I remember. It does endorce "One China", but that's different to "One Country, Two Systems". --Sumple (Talk) 03:28, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Inconsistencies

I'm having trouble sourcing the following facts in the article, so I'm going to edit them; this is here to provide a better record than edit comments:

Chiang Kai-shek International Airport

(1) Roland Soong's blog post The Big Brawl in Taipei states the taxis tried to prevent the motorcade from heading to the airport, but does not provide a name for the leader.

(2) The same blog post does go on to state that Shi Ming (is this the same Taiwan independence advocate as Shih Ming-teh?) sets off firecrackers in front of the entrance to the departure hall. It is possible that the current name in this article is misspelled, but I can't locate Soong's original sources (dead links to Yahoo!/Taiwan News) to confirm.

(3) Same blog post states Shi Ming was NOT arrested.

Probably it was Su Beng. – Kaihsu (talk) 18:23, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Nanjing

(4) The current linked reference attributes a different form of the statement to one of Lien's aides, not Lien himself. 'Joanna Lei, who is accompanying Lien on his ground-breaking journey, said the weather change is symbolic, and she sensed history in the making: "It would have taken just two and half hours from Taipei to Nanjing by direct flight, but we took 50-60 years."' It makes an excellent soundbite, but I don't have a source that attributes this directly to Lien.

Found a source! Added to main article. -- Mliu92 (talk) 17:15, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Beijing

(5) No source could be found for this statement in the speech. Contemporary coverage of the Beijing speech suggests that if this was said, it wasn't the main theme of the speech, which praised both Deng Xiaoping and Chiang Ching-Kuo and encouraged cooperation between Taiwan and China to ensure peace.

There is a small quote that does suggest this may have been mentioned, though: "Speaking to an audience of 600 Peking University students and staff yesterday morning, Lien began his speech praising the contributions the university and Chinese intellectuals had made to political reform in China."

Reactions

(6) The only analysis I could find was one by William Jones in Executive Intelligence Review (PDF link; see page 56), and it doesn't mention Rabin or Arafat.

-- Mliu92 (talk) 17:01, 19 November 2014 (UTC)