Ma gets tearful about Dr. Sun Yat-sen

Speaking at a special exhibition on the founder of the Chinese republic, President Ma, apparently moved by his own words, wiped his nose with a handkerchief, reiterating his determination to follow Dr. Sun's teachings.

The Three Principles of the People, the dogma of the Kuomintang founded also by Dr. Sun, are nationalism, democracy, and livelihood of the Chinese. He equated the last principle with communism.

Ma began his speech at the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall by relating Taiwan with the founder of the ruling party.

The party was inaugurated as Xin Zhong Hui or Alliance for China's Restoration right after Taiwan was ceded to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895.

Dr. Sun himself made three visits to Taiwan.

After Dr. Sun died in 1923, leaders of Taiwan's autonomy movement, including Chiang Wei-shui, tried to hold rallies in memory of the man who toppled the Manchu Dynasty and founded the Republic of China in Nanjing on January 1, 1912.

Moreover, Ma said, Dr. Sun and President Barack Obama were alumni of the same school. “Both of them studied at the same high school in Hawaii.

He said he asked Wu Poh-hsiung, Kuomintang chairman, to pay a visit to Dr. Sun's mausoleum in Nanjing shortly after he was inaugurated as president on May 20 last year.

“I asked Wu Po-hsiung to report to Dr. Sun that I would implement the Three Principles of the People he left us,” President Ma said.

That's the time he cried.

Then, President Ma quoted Chang Uo-chun, a Taiwan novelist, as urging the people of Taiwan in a eulogy to Dr. Sun in 1923, “Compatriots, you should adhere to the teachings of this great leader. He said: 'Comrades, our revolution has yet to succeed. All of you should redouble your efforts.”

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