Color Taiwan Blue

The Taipei Times Colored Taiwan blue.  The greens have been defeated and yellow is a mere speck on the map.  It seems strange to me that the pan-blues, which represent the KuoMinTang remnants, are so popular.  The party of Chiang Kaishek and his son, Chiang Chingkuo, who headed the secret police after the takeover of Taiwan by the Nationalists in 1949, had been resented in Taiwan for several decades.  But today’s KMT is not the same party that took over after World War Two.  The children of the invaders have come to see Taiwan as the country of their birth and the wounds inflicted by the mainlanders have pretty much been forgotten now that the playing field has been leveled between native Taiwanese and the children of the invaders.  It doesn’t hurt, either, that Taiwan went from abject poverty to one of the richest nations in Asia under the KMT.   A prosperous people can afford to be forgiving.