Opinion: The problem of seeing Taiwan only in terms of its political value

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Taiwanese Americans gather in front of the Chinese Consulate General holding signs and chanting, "Keep Taiwan Free" and demanding the U.S. government's continued support of Taiwan on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, in Los Angeles. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Yes, I am an American Taiwanese, but I regret informing you that I will not be alongside the question of whether the president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, was right to visit Taiwan last week.

All my extended family lives there, and I have informed much better of parents to answer. Parents who, when I proudly show Mandarin, I polished as a journalist in the San Gabriel valley, they give me Palmaditas in my head as if it were a dog who speaks particularly intelligent. Parents who take me in all the delicious places to eat, which could stop if they did not like my thoughts on narrow politics.

So the strongest opinion that I can offer about this week of debates on Taiwan is as follows: please do not ruin this.

Taiwan is a beautiful island that I visit almost every year since I was a child.

Politics has always been a sensitive problem and the division is generational. All my cousins believe in Taiwanese identity and independence, and my aunts and uncles generally vote for the Kuomintang party, which has favored the closest relationships with China.

Some commentators already call this the fourth crisis of the Taiwan Strait. The first Taiwan Strait crisis in the 1950s was what brought my family to America.

Although it is not the story they told me. Like most immigrant parents, my father told me that he had come to the United States so that their children can have a better life.

But the true story is that my grandfather asked my father to go to the United States and start a new life for the family as a coverage against the possibility of war.

The conflict seemed inevitable and my family feared having to flee the war.

These are the disorderly parts that we leave aside the simplistic accounts that we use to explain immigration. The truth is that immigrants are not simply attracted to their admiration for the United States: they flee the danger and instability that most of the time, the United States has played a hand.

Illegal American intelligence operations The in civilian governments have destabilized the governments of Central and South America, and these actions are the final cause of the border immigration crisis. Immigrants in the United States, whether we call them refugees, flee existential threats.

I am therefore too cynical to believe that this last shock between super powers concerns democracy or culture.

Taiwan is the most important micropile producer in the world, and its just location on the China coast is an invaluable strategic asset for the United States and China.

When we can only see Taiwan in terms of its political and strategic value, the people of Taiwan lose.

The crises of the Taiwan Strait, when you reduce them, are essentially a series of overheated speeches that lead to overheated political actions, with the dangerous consequences of a real conflict.

Behind this convincing world drama of countries and ideologies faced are families like mine who try to survive. Older children who cannot be in the death of their father's death. Girls who never take care of their older mothers. Immigrants who are still foreigners in their new house and can no longer recognize their country of origin.

This is what I ask. In a world where the moment, absolute certainty has become such a marketable commodity, dares to be uncertain.

Because with uncertainty comes the will to learn. And this is the only way these problems advance.

Prevariaceized, please, just for a moment. Listen, badly, whatever you need to do. Maybe a little waffle.

Because I don't know who is helped by this problem to judge. It is certainly not the Taiwanese people.