Amid the Chang Ching-yi Incident US-Taiwan War in Countering China and Witch-Hunting

Amid the Chang Ching-yi Incident US-Taiwan War in Countering China and Witch-Hunting

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

April 26, 2020

 Translation of an Excerpt

The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) decided to punish Chang Ching-yi, a Taiwan-born man who served as a reporter for Eastern Satellite TV in Shanghai with accreditation with the White House. Although the Interior Ministry, the National Communications Commission (NCC), and the Ministry of Culture pushed the case around, after the Presidential Palace indicated its backing, the MAC quickly decided that the NCC would be the competent government agency to handle the punishment.

Born in Yunlin, growing up in New Taipei City, Chang Ching-yi graduated from National Chengchi University in Taipei; when he was asked by Trump in a press briefing at the White House "Where are you from?" he replied by saying "From Taiwan", and Trump much satisfied said "very good." Later the incident churned up huge waves on both sides of the Strait and in the US. Taiwan netizens criticized him as pro-China and an apple polisher for communism. Although Chang Ching-yi indicated, "I am proud of my birthplace", from the MAC and the Cabinet, up to the Presidential Palace, they all asked for punishment, even Trump demanded by tweeting "Kick him out now!"

Just like a home quarantine with an electronic fence in pandemic control, Chang Ching-yi's penalty ticket looks even more like a writ of seizure for cross-Strait segregation. No matter what charges the MAC wrote on the penalty ticket, the salient point is that the seal engraved with cross-Strait divergences and the US-China-Taiwan trilateral relationship affixed on the constitutional guarantee for the people’s right to work, punishing the courage of the younger generation to challenge the international job market only satisfies populist hate-China witch hunting in Taiwan and the hate-China pleasure of the right wing in the US, even more underscoring that the US-China conflict is pushing Taiwan to the forefront of the raging war.

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