This is totally wrong.
Taiwan is a democratic country. It is not 阿扁 who can declare a new name.(myabe the leader in China can do whatever he wants, but this is not the case in Taiwan, by the way, there are TV Program every night to criticize the government and President Chen.........and the DPP can do nothing)
It shall be a process that shows the collective will of the people on this island. Referundum is a choice.
Why China is so afraid of the referendum, this is the best peaceful solution.
Since China always says it is only a small part of the people in Taiwan support independent, it will be good to see the result.
Then we all support this result.
If the call is for unification with China, tell USA to shut up and get out of the Taiwan strait.
If the call is to be a new born Country what ever its name is, then China stop to threat Taiwan and both side can start to build up friendly relationship.
Don't you think this a good way to solve the problem?
Don't you have the confidence for China?
Referendum??? Very good, but don't mislead people by just talking about Taiwan. What about referendum in entire China (including both main land and Taiwan)? If people in both side are all happy and agree, Taiwan can certainly pursuit independancy and also avoid a war. Would that be perfect? You are obviously dreaming, hopefully you don't fool yourself, because nobody in mainland would say "yes". Imaging, when 1.3 billion people get angry, people like you in Taiwan would either surrend or choose to die for independancy. Do you have that sort of guts for die?.....