We are realizing more and more the hollowness and lack of common sense in the Democratic Progressive Party's mainland China policy, based on the party's protests against the negotiations between Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), and Chen Yunlin, president of the Association for the Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) , and to the proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA). Many people have the same question: What exactly is the DPP protesting against? In the four Chiang-Chen meetings so far, 12 cross-strait agreements have been signed on issues that include direct flights, Chinese visitors to Taiwan, judicial cooperation, food safety, agricultural products inspection, fishery labor affairs, and standardization of certificates. As hardly any objections to the agreements have been heard from the DPP, could it be that it is only opposed to Chen's traveling around during his visit in Taiwan, not to the 12 agreements? As to the ECFA proposal, the signing of such an agreement is meant to meet the challenges of globalization. If the DPP really considers the ECFA such a disastrous idea, why is not against the efforts to join the trade cooperation framework of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)? If the DPP is building its cross-strait policy on the political notion of a 'Taiwan Republic' and the economic idea of 'anti-globalization,' where will the DPP find its footing? The DPP should immediately stop its political manipulations of deceit and self- deception. 