What does Taiwan Presidential Election Mean to Chinese Mainlander?

Last Saturday on January 13th, Taiwan had witnessed the coming of its fourth democratically elected president. I count it the way I see after the term of Li Denghui. A bitter truth for me, as Chinese mainlander, is that the Tiananmen Square protest in China was one big drive for the democratic reform in Taiwan. What we have failed on this side, they succeeded in replace. And I suddenly have an intuition that if we mainlander had succeeded in 1989, perhaps Taiwan was already a province of China today. No offence, to Taiwanese, I totally understand their stance now. I’m just a little bit jealous.

But I do, as I present you a mindset as mainlander, I do have a different opinion on Taiwan’s justification on being a nation because I think Taiwan is in all way of Chinese identity, except politically aspect. At least, the national palace museum ...