The Most Turbulent Moment, the Most Chaotic Nat’l Security Team

The Most Turbulent Moment, the Most Chaotic Nat’l Security Team

China Times Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

June 2, 2020

 Translation of an Excerpt

The Mainland People’s Congress enacted the "Hong Kong version of the National Security Law". Taiwan, the US, Japan, and other related countries knew nothing about it beforehand, seemingly unprepared in response. In particular, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu stated in an exclusive interview with a US media outlet that Beijing would use force against Taiwan after enacting the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law, but Deputy Minister of Defense Chang Che-ping immediately negated this version at the Legislative Yuan. However, Chen Ming-tong, chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, said to the outside world that the Mainland would revise the conditions for the use of force against Taiwan, and that an anonymous national security figure spoke to the media, saying that Mainland President Xi Jinping would, after the two Congresses, issue an "earth-shaking" statement targeting Taiwan, and indicated that global powers would coalesce with peripheral countries in proposing acts of military sanctions or rhetoric against Beijing, which proved to be utterly wrong afterwards. It seems that if the DPP government is unable to precisely grasp the information, with officials playing different tunes, then that is deliberately fabricating a crisis of war, allowing rumors of war to spread everywhere.

To maintain national security, we cannot rely on slogans, nor can we rely on psychedelic drugs to solve practical challenges. To let the national security team become an organism without individualism, integrate individual resources, and exert collective wisdom is the most important task of President Tsai Ing-wen at a time when the global politico-economic situation is mired in unprecedented chaos and national security encounters peril, doubt and unease.

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