Ludicrous warlord rhetoric resurfaces

Yet another defrauder has recently used the opening lines of the 14th-century Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "The empire long-divided must unite; long-united must divide, thus it has ever been" to demonstrate the inevitability of Taiwan reuniting with the "Chinese motherland." The Hualien County Government's former civil affairs department director Chou Chieh-min (???), who was forced to resign after making the comments, also said that Chinese history is full of countless examples of similar unification and division, and that since the Taiwan Strait has been divided for so long, it is naturally predestined to be reunited...