If you want to choose an outstanding representative among the forces supported by the United States, then the Kuomintang is actually more prominent. Compared with other "monsters and demons", it looks at least like a political party and once controlled most of China.
However, such a force is not enough to be found in East Asia, known as the "monster house". It not only retreated step by step in the War of Liberation, but was forced to "attend" Taiwan.
even did not hold on to this basic platform, and he gave up after the new century.
Taiwan
After the Democratic Progressive Party came to power, it introduced a series of policies to "de-Sinicize", which was relatively obscure at the beginning, and was only subtle in the fields of education and daily life. With Tsai Ing-wen's victory, the DPP's actions in this regard gradually became arrogant.
Among them, Chiang Kai-shek's influence is the first to be eliminated.
Since 2016, statues of Chiang Kai-shek from all over Taiwan have begun to be removed one after another. The most representative event is the bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek was cut down in 2017.
This series of actions of the DPP are hidden under the banner of "clearing the symbol of authoritarianism and ", but they are extremely double standards in the process.
Chiang Kai-shek statue
Chiang Kai-shek was "cleaned" by the whole Taiwan
In the late 1970s, in order to peacefully resolve the "Taiwan issue", the mainland strengthened exchanges with Taiwan. Therefore, the performance of film and television works on Chiang Kai-shek began to become more comprehensive, and they are no longer stereotyped villain images; there is even the problem of "over-beautification" in some film and television dramas.
This also led to some people putting "filters" on Chiang Kai-shek, so some people in mainland China still have more evaluations of Chiang Kai-shek than on Taiwan. Although the latter is an area where the Kuomintang ruled for many years, and even the Jiang family has made a lot of contributions to Taiwan's economic take-off, their public evaluations have gradually declined in recent years.
This is on the one hand because the Kuomintang’s “authoritarian rule” in Taiwan caused a backlash, and on the other hand, it was also because of the subtle influence of the Democratic Progressive Party after it came to power.
In 2016, after Tsai Ing-wen won the general election, she soon began to implement her "transformation justice" campaign policy and launched a large-scale " de-Chenghua " action across Taiwan.
Tsai Ing-wen
In 2017, the "Regulations on Promoting Justice in Transformation" was officially announced, and the "Committee on Promoting Justice in Transformation" that implemented this policy was subsequently established.
The main task of this institution is to clear the symbols of authoritarianism, especially the symbols of commemoration or commemoration of the "authoritarian" ruler in public buildings or places, which will be removed, renamed or otherwise disposed of.
And the spearhead of this kind of task actually points directly to Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo .
After the promulgation of the Justice Regulations on Promoting Transformation, various parts of Taiwan began to remove Chiang Kai-shek's statues. Some non-governmental organizations even started to take action before the establishment of the "Transfer Promotion" was established. The landmark event was the 2017 incident of the bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek in Yangmingshan.
Chiang Kai-shek statue
In June of that year, the bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek located in Yangmingshan Park was damaged twice. First, its avatar was cut off by supporters of the "independence faction"; then two men burned it with high-temperature welding guns, which still cannot be repaired. After the news of
was exposed, public opinion on the island was in an uproar, and many people who were dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek felt that this approach was very excessive.
However, the DPP official disagreed. Not only did it not severely punish the murderers, it also secretly criticized them in many interviews. After the establishment of the "Promotion Transfer Promotion", this behavior has risen from the public to the official. With its efforts, Taiwan has dealt with as many as 360 statues of Chiang Kai-shek in less than 4 years, accounting for one-quarter of the bronze statues in Taiwan. The reason why
failed to do its best is that in addition to insufficient time and condemnation from the Kuomintang official, there are also some opposition voices from the people. Because in many city parks and schools, these bronze statues have become landmark buildings, and after demolition, they will destroy the overall layout. Therefore, it was unanimously opposed by the locals and the construction was impossible to start.
Chiang Kai-shek statue
Yangmingshan double standard "transformation"
Although the DPP promotes "transformation justice" under the banner of removing the "symbol of authoritarianism", it is actually Sima Zhao's heart, which is known to everyone.
What they do has very serious double standards and has never been concealed.
For example, after the statue of Chiang Kai-shek in Yangmingshan Park was destroyed in 2017, the park ignored it; instead, three years later, it applied to build a "Japanese Emperor Monument".
Yangmingshan Park is located in Taipei City. Its original name is Caoshan . It was quite well-known during the Japanese occupation period. It has a very high ranking among the "Eight Scenery and Twelve Wins" voted by the Taiwanese people. It is a good place for tourists.
Yangmingshan Park
The spring here has colorful flowers in full bloom, which is an excellent place for Taipei people to appreciate flowers in spring; and it also leaves many hot springs because of the volcanic eruption activities. It is the best solution for leisure and relaxation, and has always been highly respected.
After Chiang Kai-shek retired to Taiwan, he lived in Taipei all year round and loved Caoshan very much.
As a disciple of " Heart Learning ", Chiang Kai-shek has always highly praised Wang Yangming and read his works repeatedly. Therefore, after he developed Caoshan into a temple, he changed it to Yangmingshan.
Because Chiang Kai-shek once lived here for a long time, a very magnificent bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek was built in Yangmingshan Park. In 1992, the park was officially opened to the public, and the bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek in it also became a scene in the park.
Bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek
In 2017, Chiang Kai-shek's bronze statue was "beheaded", but the publicity of the "Transformation Justice Act" was in full swing at that time. Therefore, both the park and the DPP officials chose to turn a blind eye and let it continue to be destroyed.
Who knew that three years later, the DPP, which has always claimed to remove the "symbol of authoritarianism", actually acquiesced to propose the construction of a "Japanese Emperor Monument" in Yangmingshan Park.
This move is completely slapping oneself in the face, because in the field of "authoritarianism", who can compare with the Emperor?
proposed this suggestion by a folk group - Sakura Returning Hometown Association, which once presented the Japanese royal family with a cherry blossom seedling. In order to commemorate this incident, they proposed to build a "Japanese Emperor Monument" in Yangmingshan Park. And this ridiculous suggestion was approved by the garden party, which was truly completely disregarding the face. After the suggestion of Yangmingshan Park
After it was exposed, it aroused great dissatisfaction among the public opinion on the island. In the end, the Taipei Municipal Government did not pass the application of Yangmingshan Park, and such a ridiculous farce was stopped.
The reason why this civil group has the courage to make such a "shocking" proposal is completely fueled by the DPP.
Sakura Returning Homecoming Association once presented cherry blossoms, arizhu and banyan tree seedlings when the new emperor ascended the throne in 2019.
This incident caused a stir that year because it was originally an ordinary act of flattery by a civil group, but the DPP official attached great importance to it. Not only did it take the initiative to host the tribute event, but the representative to Japan, Tse Changting, also visited the scene to watch the ceremony.
Yangmingshan Park
Taiwan
This double standard farce has made the DPP's activities to promote "transformation justice" and remove "authoritarian symbols" that have been carried out for several years into ridiculous performances.
Many Taiwanese scholars said in an interview with the media that the purpose of "promoting transfers" is to erase Chiang Kai-shek's existence in real history. The so-called "anti-authoritarian" is essentially to separate the historical connection between the mainland and Taiwan.
At the same time, this double standard incident also exposed a problem. Although the Taiwanese have driven away the Japanese colonists, they have never "decolonized" in their hearts.
To this day, whether it is the official DPP or the people of Taiwan, the concept of favoring Japan and pro-Japanese is rooted in the heart and has never been shaken.
Chiang Kai-shek
The reason why this happens is actually caused by two factors. On the one hand, after the end of War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang did not conduct a thorough decolonization movement in Taiwan due to the situation and internal parties.
At that time, the Kuomintang focused all its energy on the liberation war and internal power struggles, and basically did not criticize the Japanese invaders. After retreating to Taiwan, the criticism was insufficient because he was an ally of the United States with the latter. Moreover, in order to consolidate their rule, they deliberately covered up the heroic history of the local military and civilians' resistance to Japan.
For a long time, the Kuomintang has been under high pressure over Taiwan with white terror. Many civilians at the bottom of the class were short of food and clothing and were extremely tight, and some were even worse than during the Japanese occupation period.
As time goes by, they have been accumulating dissatisfaction with the Kuomintang in their hearts, and a small number of people have invisibly beautified the Japanese rule in their memory.
Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan
Secondly, after the Democratic Progressive Party came to power, if it wanted to maintain its rule, it was necessary to crack down on the prestige and reputation of the Kuomintang. The method is to "de-Sinicize" education and culture, while intentionally beautifying Japan's colonial rule.
This point is most directly reflected in Taiwan's textbooks. The latter has almost no related content on anti-Japanese and anti-Japanese. It is also an overall understatement of the cruel rule during the Japanese occupation period, and the details are not mentioned.
Under such an educational system, young Taiwanese people do not understand the real history at all, and their understanding of Japan is naturally one-sided.
Therefore, these people are unable to resist the erosion of Japan in the face of cultural erosion, and have developed the idea of pro-Japanese and cowardly favoring Japan under constant brainwashing.
Taiwanese
"Promoting transfers" to change to rebirth
After several double-standard incidents broke out one after another, the DPP's attempt to use "transformation justice" to achieve the goal of "de-Singapore" has been understood. In the face of criticism from the media and public opinion, the "transfer promotion" with a completely ruined image will naturally not be able to continue.
On May 30, amid protests, the institution finally disbanded.
However, this move is not a victory for public opinion. It is really that the "East Factory" theory published by Vice Chairman Zhang Tianqin of "Promoting Transfers" is too anti-intellectual, which makes the DPP dissatisfied with this swearing institution and ultimately choose to end it and calm the political risks.
This move does not mean that the so-called "transformation justice" work of the DPP will stop. In an interview with the media, Su Zhenchang of the Executive Ministry said that this work will continue to be implemented, and the relevant content will be broken into pieces and undertaken by 6 departments.
Su Zhenchang
And the DPP is also planning to list a new department, the so-called "Human Rights and Transformation Justice Department". Although
is not explicitly stated, normal people can see that it is actually a rebirth of "promoting transfers" and will continue to carry out the relevant tasks of "de-Chang Hua" in the future.
In this field, the "strangation" of the DPP will continue.
De-Chang Hua
Conclusion
It is true that Chiang Kai-shek's governance of Taiwan did have many problems, objectively causing trauma to the local residents at that time.
descendants reflect on and summarize the past mistakes. If the so-called "transformation justice" can be worthy of its name, it will be a good deed.
Unfortunately, the DPP’s approach is ultimately to “sell dog meat with the help of sheep”, and its essence is to “de-Singapore” Taiwan independence policy under the moral cloak of “anti-authoritarianism”.
And regarding the so-called "de-Chianghua" as the core issue just reveals the incompetence of the DPP. They are lacking in all kinds of people's livelihood issues, so they try to divert attention from the island by using the confrontation of ideology .
Reference
"Taiwan Yangming Mountain, but the "Japanese emperor stele" is set up? 》—Fujian Daily
"Taiwanese authorities plan to remove the bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek in the "Zhongzheng Memorial Hall"" - The Paper
