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"This election also signals a unity of purpose and policy
within our government, my friends, a union between rival pa-
triotic groups that has been much too long in the making. Our
newfound coalition between the KMT and DPP forms the basis
of our pride in our accomplishments and our standing in the
world community. It is time for our unity, our pride, to be
brought forth upon the world for all to see."
President Lee let the loud applause continue for a few long
moments; then: "With humble pride and great joy, Premier




4 DALE BROWN
Huang and I hereby bring to the floor of the National Assem-
bly a bill, drafted by the Central Standing Committee of the
Kuomintang, amended by the Legislative Yuan Major Consti-
tutional Committee, and passed this date unanimously by the
Legislative Branch, to amend the constitution of the Republic
of China. It is now up to us to ratify this constitutional amend-
ment.
"The bill amends the constitution by proclaiming that the
Republic of China, including the island archipelagoes of For-
mosa, Quemoy, Matsu, Makung, Taiping, and Tiaoyutai, is
now and forever shall be a separate, sovereign, and indepen-
dent nation, subordinate or component to none. The people of
the Republic of China hereby renounce all allegiance and ties
to land, title, property, legal claims, and jurisdiction to the
mainland. Our prayers will always be that we are someday
reunited with our motherland, but until that day comes, we
hereby proclaim that the Republic of China is a separate na-
tion, with all the rights and responsibilities of free and sov-
ereign nations anywhere in the world. The bill is hereby
submitted for a vote. May I please have a second?"
"I proudly second the motion," the new premier, Huang
Chou-ming, shouted, which lifted the applause to a new, out-
rageous level. Huang and the DPP had been fighting for such
a declaration of independence for many years, and their victory
in getting this legislation passed and onto the Assembly floor
was the most significant event in the history of the Nationalist
Chinese.
The introduction of this bill meant that the Kuomintang I s
basic philosophy of one China, introduced by Dr. Sun Yat-sen
as he and Nationalist General Chiang Kai-shek fought to lib-
erate China from the grasp of the Japanese empire after World
Wars I and H, and proclaimed ever since the Nationalists were
pushed off the mainland to the island of Taiwan by the Corn-
munists in 1949, was effectively dead. There had always been

a hope that the Nationalists could somehow liberate the main-