Co-Planning the Big Picture about the Turn-Over of Parties in 2020

 Co-Planning the Big Picture about the Turn-Over of Parties in 2020

China Times Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

May 15, 2019

Translation of an Excerpt

With regard to who will emerge as the KMT’s standard-bearer in the 2020 presidential election, KMT Chairman Wu Den-yih has completed individual consultations and communication with all the hopefuls, i.e., Foxconn Chairman Terry Guo, Eric Chu, Wang Jin-pyng and Kaohsiung City Mayor Han Kuo-yu, who was invited to enter the primary, laying an open and fair foundation for the primary within the KMT. In the future, who will emerge as the winner of course still awaits scrutiny; however, as the overall situation has developed up to now, some apparent trends have appeared and should be stressed and grasped with care. Conversely, some misgivings have also been reverberating and must be prevented and dispelled. Between the hollow and substantive, and between advances and retreats, one has to firmly grasp where the big picture is, never putting the cart before the horse.

First, during the three years under the DPP administration, popular grievances abound, not only leaving cross-Strait relations to be mired in a precarious situation, even causing adversities in people’s livelihoods and economic doldrums. For this reason, in 2020, the DPP must be brought down, creating a new opportunity for Taiwan; this has become the consensus of all people and the greatest objective. Secondly, the White power has virtually become the source of votes both the Blue and Green try to seek; if the Blue and White can engage in cooperation on tactical and strategic levels based on the foundation of "the two sides of the Strait are like family", it is inevitable that the fourth turn-over of political parties in Taiwan will be realized in 2020. Thirdly, two trump cards, Han Kuo-yu and Terry Gou, have appeared in the pan-Blue camp; if the duel can, in an impartial and transparent system, exhibit their respective strong suits and characteristics, showing in front of countrymen a rational and new look in the competition with substantive content, it will inevitably elevate the positive momentum and image of the pan-Blue camp.

From the competition between Han and Guo, to the competition between the Blue and White, neither should miss the great goal of bringing down the DPP and reconstructing cross-Strait relations.

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