Log#7

President Ma's speech

    Last week I didn't go to the class because I went to an impressive and amazing speech. I am neither the blue party nor the green party. I went to this speech just because of the speaker's characters and the urgent problem we were facing nowadays. The topic of this speech is the cross-straight relationship and the international diplomacy strategy of Taiwan. Now, first I have to share the speech style of President Ma.  To our old assumption, politicians are always boring and serious. However, President Ma is totally a different person from that impression. During his speech, I could barely get any boring and dizzy feeling; instead, the humor and joke he used did gain our laughter. I can say that I was quite focusing on what he told in that 2-hour period. What's more, he is the most amiable president I have never seen before. I am not saying that other presidents are not friendly but he is really really approachable. From the news talked about him, we can know that he is really a kind person. I once saw that he sometimes took the MRT and he was just like a normal citizen; all he did was to line up and give priority to the elderly. Furthermore, I could feel that he tried many efforts to answer our questions, hoping that we could indeed benefit from his speech.

    As of the topic, I really get more information that I have never known before. President Ma said that we should fix our frozen relationship with China because this created better conditions for us. He didn't say that we should be united but said that we should be one friend of Mainland China. I agree his suggestion because China is a big market. Lots of industries, from entertainment to manufacturing, develop in China. Just look how the tourism industry goes after our cross-straight relationship gets worse.  He also said that his ideal goal was to build up an Asian educational center in Taiwan, which meant that more and more China as well as other countries' exchange students could study here. I think that education can really bring peace to the world. When students gather together and study together they will form the collaborative relationship. Then these highly knowledged people will have influences on their countries policy. They know that peace brings win while wars cause destruction. I think I really got a priceless lecture last week and I look forward to President Ma's coming next time.