Ultra-egoistic National Team Can Win Super Domestic Publicity But Can’t Win People’s Hearts

Ultra-egoistic National Team Can Win Super Domestic Publicity But Can’t Win People’s Hearts

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

May 12, 2020

 Translation of an Excerpt

Recently, Premier Su Tseng-chang has quickened more and more the tempo of his speech, has made posters bigger and bigger at his press conferences, and has made more and more slogans for the national team; suddenly and curiously, his policies have become more and more chaotic. This is the phenomenon of government on the eve of President Tsai’s second inaugural. Amid the bailout chaos and under pressure of popular grievances, Su Tseng-chang could not but come out to apologize, but at the venue of the apology, he still asked for commander of the Central Epidemic Control Center Chen Shi-chung’s presence for protection. The reason is none other, only Chen Shi-chung’s halo could cover up the "national team’s" off-key performance.

Both Tsai Ing-wen and Su Tseng-chang like to use "national teams" to cower others, stressing "with government, you may rest assured", singing praise for the government team as superb as the "national team". This government brags about its achievements, while when facing missteps in policy and popular grievances, it is not willing to rectify it. The tourism industry is the one that has been impacted by the pandemic the most, but the the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, which has purview over that industry, is at the bottom in terms of efficiency. When it saw that the government was recently lambasted, the Council of Agriculture simply wired money directly into the accounts of farmers, nevertheless, it was bombarded for leaving the underprivileged waiting for days and days. The government has been throwing money around like hell for "super domestic publicity", yet it doesn’t see any preparations for battle against the severe winter of the global market. How could this kind of "national team", which only knows how to be hyped behind closed doors, win people’s hearts?

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