Chinese ROC supporters in U.S. split on China

Asked whether groups associated with the ROC and Taiwan and those support the Communist China could jointly celebrate either Taiwan's Double Ten National Day or China's Oct. 1 National Day, both Lin and Tsai said that such a situation will not happen because of the events' political nature.

Pro-DPP overseas Taiwanese groups, on the other hand, have no interest in having exchanges with their Chinese counterparts, according Ben Chang, former president of the Taiwanese Association of America Greater Washington Chapter.

“I don't believe that any pro-DPP overseas group would attend events hosted by Chinese groups,” Chang said.

Hsu Chin-chung, an adviser to the DPP's Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission in Baltimore, also said that his agency will not co-host any events with its Chinese counterpart.

Kung Chung-chen, head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles, said Friday that only through “mutual respect” can the two long feuding sides promote exchanges and hold joint events.

“A Taiwan-China truce on the front of expatriate affairs can be achieved through respect. The precondition of mutual respect is to expressing good will and not deny the existence of each other,” Kung said.

Noting that the ethnic Chinese groups supporting the PRC still have disputes with their Taiwanese counterparts on the issue of sovereignty due to the lack of understanding of the goodwill expressed by Chinese leaders in setting aside the difference, Kung said Taiwan will wait patiently for them to change.

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