350,000 Swarming to the Streets, Han Fans Have Even Greater Responsibility Ahead

 350,000 Swarming to the Streets, Han Fans Have Even Greater Responsibility Ahead

China Times Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

December 22, 2019

 Translation of an Excerpt

With 20 days left in the count-down to the 2020 presidential election, on December 21^st, the Blue camp held a grand parade in support of Han Kuo-yu and the Green camp staged a march for the recall of Han as mayor, contesting in neighboring districts in Kaohsiung City. The two rallies reflected the current scenes in Taiwan. Just as Han Kuo-yu said in his speech, the pro-Han camp is filled with worries about the current situation in Taiwan, but filled with brightness and hope for the country’s future, expecting the current situation to change. The anti-Han camp, nevertheless, attempted to keep the status quo. In fairness, if under the Tsai government’s 4-year governance, people were happy in their livelihood and at their workplace, with economic prosperity, social stability, diplomatic breakthroughs, and cross-Strait peace, then there would not have been over 300,000 pro-Han Kuo-yu crowds in the streets hoping to change the current situation.

The DPP relies on four great weapons: cyber warriors, opinion polls, issuing policies for electioneering purposes, and hate-China, Sinophobic sentiments. First, through smearing and pinning fellow traveler’s label on Han Kuo-yu, propagating an image that Han Kuo-yu was a country pumpkin and the PRC’s fellow traveler, scaring off swing voters. Second, through public opinion polls with insufficient sampling representativeness, creating the false image that Tsai’s support ratings surged far ahead, reduce the willingness of the pan-Blue electorate to vote. Third, the KMT legislative caucus estimates that the amount for "policies for electioneering purposes" proposed by the Cabinet reached as high as NT$533.3 billion, roughly representing 1/4 of the central government’s annual general budget. Lastly, the DPP endlessly fans hate-China and Sinophobic sentiments, hyping pan-Green crowds’ voter turnout rate, almost seeing no concrete policy planks proposed by the Tsai camp, seeing only dirty tricks and fear. According to Taiwan Indicators Survey Research opinion poll data, as high as 70% of the public do not know Tsai Ing-wen’s concrete policy planks, but Tsai’s support ratings are leading in “opinion polls”, showing the Green camp’s success in camouflaging public opinion polls.

"Hate the DPP", "hate Tsai Ing-wen" are a social consensus, but the Green camp is still continuously utilizing opinion polls, cyber warfare, and hate-China sentiments to camouflage public opinions, darkening Taiwan. 350,000 Han Kuo-yu fans swarmed the streets, using brightness and hope, love and inclusiveness to personally counter the DPP’s dirty tricks; the ensuing responsibility will be even greater. Only by maximizing the social forces to seek all those who “hate the DPP” and “hate Tsai Ing-wen”, brightening all corners shrouded in darkness and hatred, can Han Kuo-yu win the election and can Taiwan break through its predicament.

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