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May 11, 2009

Snags in the Cross-Strait Relationship

Joe Hung, China Post

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Some 15 years ago, C.F. Koo, the late chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), asked me a thought-provoking question in a kind of tete-a-tete at a cafe in Piazza Spagna in Rome. “As things are going now,” he asked, “do I have to continue to do my extra job?”

His "extra job," by the way, was to improve relations between Taiwan and China as former President Lee Teng-hui's top negotiator with Beijing. His main job was to run his Ho Hsin business conglomerate, which included the Taiwan Cement Corporation and the Chinatrust bank. I knew he was very much frustrated, though I ventured to answer he must go on doing his extra job the best he could.

Koo wasn't a mere business tycoon. He knew Taiwan has to...

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