The Taipei-based "National Palace Museum" has brought to the notice of the local "legislative yuan" damage to two cultural relics. In a report filed on Monday, the authorities claimed that either someone pressed a box too hard or the damage had been there for longer.

Earlier, on Friday, Chen I-hsin, a Kuomintang member of the "legislative yuan", had reported damage to some cultural relics. The same day, the museum's head Wu Mi-cha admitted at a news conference that three artifacts — two bowls and a plate, the oldest one dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)-had been damaged.

Three days later, a primary report was filed to the "legislative yuan", but it hinted at so many "possibilities" that it is not clear what caused the damage.

Everybody knows that in 1949 the then ruling Kuomintang took many cultural relics from the Palace Museum in Beijing southward with them, and from there to Taiwan. That is how a "National Palace Museum" appeared in Taipei — to showcase cultural relics brought from Beijing.

The ruling Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan, which openly advocates "Taiwan independence", has not been bothered with the proper upkeep of these relics that represent Chinese national history, as they want to remove every trace of China from the island.

Lai Shyh-bao, another Kuomintang member of the "legislative yuan", openly blamed museum head Wu, who is from the DPP, for moving the relics from one yard to another. It is clear that they plan to eradicate any trace of the motherland for Taiwan students, in the process wiping out any stirrings for the motherland in their hearts.

Under the DPP authorities, even relics are not safe from ideological biases. The relics might not speak, but the damage will bear testimony to how the DPP's ideology is harming Taiwan.

The relics might now be in Taiwan, but they belong to the greater Chinese nation. The DPP must accord the relics due respect.