The national elections in Taiwan have come and gone. The pro-independence party won at both the presidential and legislative levels.

What does this mean to Asia? The next move it up to China. For it is they who see Taiwan as part of China and have strongly suggested that Taiwan will be theirs even if it means a military invasion of the island.

Taiwan, and the US, should take national issues in measured strides less it angers China. We do not advocate obeying China in all things. We merely say that China, in the past, has done what it could to isolate Taiwan. With these elections they will probably continue to do so.

We can only hope and pray that Taiwan will remain independent of China and that China will one day be converted to the faith.