The colonial ascendency imposed its symbols, its history, even its language upon the people it colonized and this is the heritage that some among the pan-greens now seek to dismantle. Sun, for instance is no more than the father of Taiwan than Oliver Cromwell was of Ireland. He is a totemic figure of the colonial power. The 1911 revolution has as much relevance to Taiwan as does prime minister Winston Churchill's wartime leadership of Britain to the happy denizens of today's Dublin.Of course, the Chinese do not like these attempts to portray Sun as an outsider or to portray Taiwan as a separate nation.
{Reference for some items mentioned in the editorial: Sun Yat-sen controversy, the ruling DPP is also known as the "greens" and they are more pro-independence than the opposition KMT, also known as the "blues", who are more pro-China.}
