Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council Zhang Zhijun held a discussion with the visiting delegation of Taiwan county and city mayors
In order to break through the dilemma of cross-strait relations being frozen after Tsai Ing-wen came to power and the sharp decline in mainland tourists coming to Taiwan, the heads of the blue camp and the eight unparty counties and cities jointly landed in the economy. In this regard, Wang Fengsheng, honorary professor at Kaohsiung University, pointed out that Tsai Ing-wen's strategy of "receiving the United States, beautifying the Japanese, and getting rid of China" has destroyed the cross-strait status of the Malaysian government's "pro-US, being friendly to Japan, and being harmonious with China" in the past. Under the reality that the official mechanism between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait has been suspended, the heads of eight counties and cities have begun to land, breaking through the bottleneck of the second round of cross-strait exchanges after 520. The breakthrough gap in the first round of cross-strait exchanges after
520 is the continuation of the "2016 Taipei Shanghai Urban Forum", and the second breakthrough is that the Blue Camp and eight non-party counties and cities jointly landed to win the "Zhang Bajiu" goodwill of Zhang Zhijun, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council. Regarding some scholars criticizing the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council for "creating and dividing internal conflicts between Taiwan", Wang Fengsheng believes that there has been a long time since the division of political consciousness and the opposition between social classes within . As the market economy pie and the narrow international space continue to shrink, future cross-strait relations will depend on Tsai Ing-wen's attitude of blame or affirmation after these eight counties and cities return to Taiwan.
Wang Fengsheng, born in 1950, is from Fengshan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. His ancestral home is Nantong, Jiangsu. Purdue University PhD in Economics. He has served as a professor in the Department of Applied Economics of Kaohsiung University, director of the Regional Economic and Industrial Development Center of the School of Management of Kaohsiung University, consultant to the Science and Technology Economics Group of Taiwan's "National Policy Research Foundation", government affairs consultant to the "Executive Yuan", and chairman of the China Asia-Pacific Society of Economics and Management. He is currently an honorary professor at the Kaohsiung University of Kaohsiung University.
Wang Fengsheng said that in the past, the DPP members such as former Yunlin County Mayor Su Zhifen, former Pingtung County Mayor Cao Qihong, and Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Ju, all of them bravely logged in for the sake of urban industry and competitiveness. As a leader of a county and municipal government, how can we ignore the livelihood of the people?
Whether it is the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council or Tsai Ing-wen, the blue camp and the representatives of the heads of the eight counties and cities from non-party members actually have political goodwill and strategies. If neither of them are kind, these eight counties and cities will not be able to successfully log in, because the counties and cities under the green camp also hope to achieve the spillover effect of positive integration benefits.
The Tsai government cannot admit 1992 Consensus under the pressure of independence factions, but Tsai's "maintaining the status quo" of " government " is not Ma Ying-jeou's "that status quo", but a "vague and uncreative" status quo. Now that eight counties and cities are logged in, it will certainly put pressure on the counties and cities under the rule of Green Camp. We have seen that tourists took to the streets to protest on September 12. In the future, there may be more counties and cities under the ruling of Green Camp hope to participate in the Beijing Agricultural Products Exhibition and Tourism Exhibition at the end of the year on the premise of despising political colors.
Wang Fengsheng said that the Mainland Affairs Council and the Straits Foundation no longer have official communication functions, and the cross-strait exchanges are the exchanges between counties and cities. Interestingly, he observed that one of the representatives of the Taiwan delegation, Miaoli, , and 4, County Mayor Xu Yaochang, when facing Zhang Zhijun, Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said that he "read the draft word by word" and did not mention the "1992 Consensus". After all, these local governments have to look at the expression of the "Tsai government" when they come back, which is too obvious.
If mainland tourists come to Taiwan to travel in the future, if they only enter these few counties and cities, it will probably intensify the contradictions and conflicts within Taiwan society, because only "peninsula tourism" is left for mainland tourists come to Taiwan. You can probably end your trip to Nantou and go home.
Today, the biggest problem facing Taiwan is that there is no consensus within the society, so the incident of eight counties and municipal governments forming a group to the mainland occurred. But we cannot say that they are right or wrong, because they are also for the people and economic development within their jurisdiction.
Wang Fengsheng said that the most serious thing about cross-strait relations is not only the suspension of the official exchange mechanism, but also whether the psychological distance between the grassroots society of the two straits has a greater psychological distance due to Tsai Ing-wen's deliberate departure or the car burning incident, this is a problem that leaders on both sides of the strait must face.
