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Is the Tsai-Lai Ticket a Strong-Strong Match or a Pairing for Possible Exchange of Barbs?

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 Is the Tsai-Lai Ticket a Strong-Strong Match or a Pairing for Possible Exchange of Barbs?

 

 

China Times Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

 

November 20, 2019


 Translation of an Excerpt

 

From the surface, the Tsai Ing-wen-Lai Ching-te ticket is a strong-strong alliance capable of galvanizing the greatest force within the party; however, the formation of the "Tsai-Lai ticket", nevertheless, leads to misgivings with regard to President Tsai’s cross-Strait policies in the future, Tsai-Lai interactions and the rules of power game within the party, also allowing a new perception with regard to the Machiavellian politics of the DPP.

 

Tsai Ing-wen picked Lai Ching-te as her running mate, not only successfully gathering the support of the New Tide faction, but also vaguely implying the passing of the baton to Lai Ching-te in 2024; this could also be the major reason why Lai Ching-te was willing to lay down past grievances to be Tsai’s running mate. Judging from Lai Ching-te’s strong character as well as his robust ambition for the highest office of the land, he probably would not be accustomed to the quiet life of a sorrowful lady in the palace harem. At that time, what would the division of work between the president and vice president be? How would they manage the relationship of superior and subordinate? If Lai Ching-te wanted to continue to develop his own political turf and enhance his own reputation, would he step on President Tsai’s taboos? At that time, would the strong-strong ticket become an exchange of barbs, forming a variable for instability in the political picture? For instance, when Lai should advocate pardoning Chen Shui-bian, how would Tsai handle it?

 

Lai Ching-te proclaimed himself as a "pragmatic Taiwan independence worker". Although the Tsai-Lai ticket may galvanize the deep Green vote, it also leads people to worry. Picking this kind of candidate as a running mate, bestowing on him a status of convenience for him to climb the ladder in the future, viewed from the Mainland, it could mean that the “Taiwan independence movement carrying even more independence", and the DPP, after Tsai Ing-wen, would adopt an even more radical Taiwan independence path. This would make the Mainland authorities completely lose its motive to engage with the DPP administration, turning instead to strengthening external pressure and efforts for internal pull. The DPP administration would no longer be able to engage in meaningful cross-Strait interactions, and Taiwan’s development would be deadlocked on this question.

 

President Tsai must prudently ponder how to lead Taiwan to move out of this predicament; this could not be accomplished simply by coalescing with the deep Green. Only with a pragmatic and cool-headed vista, looking outward, looking to the distance, and looking to the future, can President Tsai leave a mark in history with a clear conscience.

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