2020 Is a Battle Between Pro and Con Tsai Ing-wen

 2020 Is a Battle Between Pro and Con Tsai Ing-wen

China Times Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

May 20, 2019

Translation of an Excerpt

On May 20^th, President Tsai has completed the third anniversary of assuming office. She probably had not anticipated that after garnering 56% of the votes in all Taiwan, shouldering the expectations of 6.89 million people, being inaugurated with a halo, making pledges encompassing everything with florid planks, all these, however, have become heavy baggage for her administration; popular support ratings have quickly plummeted, miring her in a serious predicament, both domestic and external.

However, the Tsai government that has lost popular support has not listened to vox populi or felt the pain of the people; instead, she believes that grasping the hearts of the Green camp elites, she could stabilize her political power. However, at the same time of siding with the interests of the factions, she often hurts social justice and the interests of the grassroots.

Amid the conflict between the welfare of the people of Taiwan and those of the DPP, Tsai Ing-wen has chosen the interests of the DPP; amid the confrontation between the interests of the Green grassroots and those of the DPP factions, Tsai Ing-wen has chose to cozy up with the factions and pork barrel spoils; in the 2020 electoral campaign, Tsai will inevitably continue to side with the elites of the DPP factions,  and not with the pan-Blue, swing voters, or even grassroots masses of the pan-Green. This election will not become a battle between pro-reunification and pro-Taiwan independence on which Tsai has pinned her hopes; instead, it is closer to "a battle between pro and con Tsai Ing-wen."

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