Tsai Gov’t’s Autocracy Comparable to Beiyang Regime

  Tsai Gov’t’s Autocracy Comparable to Beiyang Regime

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

April 30, 2018

 Translation of an Excerpt

On the eve of the 99^th anniversary of the May 4th Movement, the Education Ministry rejected the new president elected by National Taiwan University, making democracy retrogress a hundred years in an instance. This incident not only trampled on the spirit of university autonomy that people had pursued, but also contravened the principle that the government “administer according to law,” only following its own interests. The Lai Ching-te Cabinet, being obstinate and autocratic, acted on its own with total disregard for public opinion; its muddleheaded mentality was startling.

At Peking University a hundred years ago, its president Tsai Yuan-pei was facing the Beiyang regime; at that time, the Beiyang government, for reasons of face, insisted that Tsai Yuan-pei stay on. Today, Taiwan’s government, however, with one heart and one mind, wanted to pluck Kuan Chung-ming at all costs. What is it if this is not retrogression for a century? Just because of this kind of arrogance of power, the DPP has abused power to the extent of fearing nothing and acting according to its wishes. The DPP seemingly believes itself is the law, and that Taiwan is an asset that that party could dispose of at will.

From "humility, humility, and more humility" at the beginning of taking office, to "arrogance, highhandedness, and autocracy" of now, the Tsai government has transformed and changed to an extent that it is difficult to recognize. The Tsai government not only transgressed the law and transgressed the Constitution, it even blatantly created laws for itself.

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