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From Hungary to Taiwan, a common basis of national identity
Kurt Shillinger
On a cool spring night in Budapest, P茅ter Magyar framed his watershed victory over 鈥渋lliberal democracy鈥� Sunday in terms of national identity. 鈥淥ur homeland is part of the West, our homeland is part of the European community,鈥� he told 100,000 fellow citizens.聽
Mr. Magyar鈥檚 words have an echo in Taiwan, as our reporter writes today. The island鈥檚 pro-China opposition leader has just returned from a trip to Beijing, where she emphasized the common bond between Taiwan and mainland China on the basis of ethnicity. Yet many Taiwanese people, like Hungarians, define national identity 鈥� and sovereignty 鈥� on values rather than material characteristics. As one school administrator in Taipei told Ann, 鈥淭aiwan is a democratic, autonomous country.鈥�
