At That End "Flirting Dialogue", and at This End "Cold-Blooded Hot Pursuit for a Kill"

At That End "Flirting Dialogue", and at This End "Cold-Blooded Hot Pursuit for a Kill"

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

June 10, 2020

 Translation of an Excerpt

On the political stage of the DPP, it never lacks dramas of tender dialogue and ruthless killing existing side by side, nor does it lack contradictions between high-pitched democracy and conspiratory calculations. Recently, Su Tseng-chang and Audrey Tang, a minister of state without portfolio, staged a "Flirting Dialogue" when announcing the Three Times Coupons. However, then the DPP immediately changed the billing to "Cold-Blooded Hot Pursuit for a Kill" in relation to recalling Han Kuo-yu. With such a performance of changing faces so rapidly, like a Sichuan drama, it would be difficult for members of the audience not to feel indisposed.

The improper intervention of the "national team for recalling Han" not only radicalized the confrontations between the pro-Han and anti-Han groups, but also deepened the hatred of the two sides, which of course does serious harm to democracy. After the Han Kuo-yu recall was passed, Han fans immediately zeroed in on certain Green camp figures to launch recall moves. These "retaliatory recall moves" may only widen the rupture in the social fabric. In contrast, the Green camp cyberwarriors immediately launched a Jedi counterattack, and even launched attacks and harassment against entertainers, such as songstress Jody Chiang, and members of the band “Nine One One”, like Hong Yu-hong, who expressed condolences over the death of Hsu Kun-yuan, Kaohsiung City Council Speaker. Could these cyber political winds "if you are not my friend, you are my enemy" take society toward reconciliation and coexistence?

In the campaign to recall Han, the DPP easily won on the surface, but the maneuverings of the "national team", nevertheless, sacrificed Taiwan's democratic system and administrative neutrality.

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