Lee attacks China-centric ideology - Taiwan

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The KMT's Sino-centric indoctrination has led to a confused people and a nation that cannot stand up for itself, the former president said yesterday

Former President Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) yesterday lashed out the ideology of his old party, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), blaming it for many of Taiwan's political ills and hindering the development of a true Taiwanese national consciousness.

What Lee called a "Greater China national consciousness," -- an identification with China and the nationalistic goal of establishing China as a world power -- which has been drummed into Taiwanese during half a century of KMT rule, has been an obstacle to constitutional reform and has resulted in the wasting of resources, a confused political system, political turbulence, ideological confrontation and partisan feuding.

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