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Twisting Xi Jinping's Talk Won't Rescue Tsai Ing-wen

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 Twisting Xi Jinping's Talk Won't Rescue Tsai Ing-wen

 

China Times Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

January 5, 2019

 Translation of an Excerpt

Four pro-Taiwan independence elders issued a joint letter demanding that Tsai Ing-wen hand out executive power and abandon her re-election bid in 2020. During Tsai Ing-wen’s most difficult moment, Mainland President Xi Jinping delivered his talk on the 40th anniversary of the “Address to Taiwan Compatriots”; Tsai Ing-wen and the pro-Tsai faction looked like people grabbing driftwood in the ocean and getting collectively excited, deliberately equating the "1992 Consensus" and "one China" with "one country, two systems." Chen Chi-mai further interpreted by saying that the talk aimed at exterminating the Republic of China. However, by attentively reading the full text, one could understand that this was the Green camp’s consistent twisting; Xi Jinping meant to remind people that Taiwan must face the question of cross-Strait reunification and propose his own program.

There were many factors in the DPP’s stunning defeat in the local elections, and one of them was the flip-flopping of policies, leaving the public at a loss as to which one to follow; deeply immerged in purging the preceding KMT administration, exterminating the opponent without thinking about domestic administration was the second one; the collapse of cross-Strait relations and a total loss in foreign affairs was the third; and arrogance, abuse of power, graft and corruption, and ugly behavior was the fourth. Besides the four, the DPP faces a more important and more far-reaching crisis, which is being obsessed with the anti-China wave churned up by the Sunflower Movement, believing that ideology has become the sole mainstay for Taiwan values, which has given the DPP the audacity to despise all others. Not knowing that in the past few years the brusqueness of the Sunflower Movement has brought Taiwan into a dead-end alley, conversely arousing rational pondering on Taiwan's future sustenance and development, and leading the people to begin feeling tired of the anti-China operations, conversely willing to look positively at the "China factor." The Han Kuo-yu vogue advocated “striving for the economy based on the 1992 Consensus" has replaced the “hate-China and anti-China struggles of the Sunflower Movement," becoming the mainstream value of Taiwan today.

Tsai Ing-wen should admit defeat from the core positioning of party ideals, sounding a clarion call for the transformation of the DPP’s narrative. The fundamental remedy is to forsake the Taiwan independence party platform; without the courage or the fundamental remedy, at a minimum, she should have the wisdom to find a stop-gap remedy, “freezing the Taiwan independence party platform” or using a more open-minded, progressive cross-Strait policy as a foundation to propose a new resolution, characterizing the re-starting of the transformation of the DPP’s ideals and the transformation of narratives.

After the defeat in the local elections, Tsai Ing-wen has apparently cozied up to the Republic of China; however, if she only takes the Republic of China’s shell and removes the Republic of China’s heart, continuing the anti-China and hate-China narrative, unilaterally relying on the US, it would be futile, ending up following in the footsteps of the political bubble-bursting à la Chen Shui-bian.

 

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