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Taiwan Becomes More Centrifugal with Every Gambit of the Gov’t

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  Taiwan Becomes More Centrifugal with Every Gambit of the Govt

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan, ROC)

July 25, 2017

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The Environmental Protection Agency promoted the "reduction of burning incense sticks" policy for shrines and temples, but it failed in communication efforts, eliciting a backlash from the public against the government’s “reduction of burning incense.” Despite the fact that the march titled "Deities on Ketagalan Boulevard” ended peacefully, the government left an indelible impression with its crudeness and highhandedness. What worries people even more is that, after this episode, from now on when the government wants to push for other related measures, including the transparency of finances on the part of religious groups and issues of misappropriation of state-owned land by shrines and temples, it will, we are afraid, be more thorny to handle.

Every time when the Tsai government introduces a public policy or reform, it always causes centrifugal forces on the part of the Taiwan public. This is indeed sad and regrettable. For instance, stripping the overseas Chinese community leaders of their honorific titles; banning retired generals from visiting the Mainland for as long as 15 years, in severe cases even suspending their monthly pension payments; the coarse “desinicization” and wonton alterations of history textbook guidelines; pushing for “one mandatory holiday, one flexible day-off,” cavalierly denigrating management as criminals who abuse labor, undermining the mutual trust between labor and management; pushing for annuity reforms, thinking nothing of vilifying the military, civil servants, and public school teachers as vested interests, destroying overnight the social trust and loyalty of civil servants; gaining the name of "progressiveness" by advocating, in a great leap, revising the Civil Code for same-sex marriage, yet being too timid to explain how to cope with incongruities between jurisprudence and the reality.

Every time the Tsai government plays a gambit, it makes Taiwan more and more centrifugal, and this is not an alarmist crying wolf. The reason is that in the eyes of the government, there are only ice-cold policies, while the people are but tools for sacrifice or maneuvering in achieving the policy objectives. When the government regards the people as foes, how could this country have days of peace?

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