Respond to M’land’s 31 Preferential Measures for Taiwan in Kind

  Respond to M’land’s 31 Preferential Measures for Taiwan in Kind

China Times Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

March 14, 2018

 Translation of an Excerpt

Premier Lai Ching-te originally planned to preside over a cross-ministerial meeting on the 12th to hear briefings of various ministries on coping with the Mainland’s 31 preferential measures for Taiwan, but it was decided to postpone the meeting at the last moment. Outside circles had no way to know the grounds for the postponement.

The Mainland’s 31 preferential measures are only the opening gambit in the Xi Jinping era’s policy for Taiwan; in the future, there will be wave upon wave of intensive offensives. Targeting the CCP’s deployment on both the strategic and tactical levels, it cannot only be a response from the Cabinet. The Presidential Office must sense the comprehensiveness and seriousness of the impact of these measures on Taiwan; it should consider convening a National Security Council meeting for cautious and prudent planning, and then the Cabinet should hold a meeting to cope with the situation.

The Mainland’s 31 preferential measures for Taiwan will have a serious impact on Taiwan, but we need not panic. If we could adhere to the spirit of opening up, tearing down the walls of containment, also offering Mainland industries and talents “31 preferential measures for the Mainland,” in a beckoning of magnanimity, then based on Taiwan's bedrock of humanities and atmospherics of freedom, why should we be afraid that talents and industries will not come? With just a change of mind, the 31 preferential measures for Taiwan could also be a reciprocal gambit for cross-Strait win-win situations. Premier Lai, don’t you agree?

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