When it comes to the complex political ecology of Taiwan, we have to mention the strange parties. After experiencing the "open policy" of Chiang Ching-kuo , all parties sprung out like mushrooms after a rain. Huang Guochang and the "power of the times" he once led are one of the strange ones.
As a political party born from the "Sunflower Student Movement" in 2014, its future is also full of magic. However, what is even more magical is the experience of his founder Huang Guochang. The political career of this man, known as the "Legislative Yuan God of War", is a rare "joke" in Taiwan's "historical".
This evil man of "Taiwan independence" is destined to be a speculator that cannot be exposed to the sun. Although he is as arrogant as the "Legislative Yuan God of War", his disgusting selfishness and behavior that endangers society are destined to be his end.
1. Become famous in one battle and become a "God of War"
Many people on the island call Huang Guochang the "God of War of the Liyuan". This name was not for nothing. At least from two aspects, he is quite consistent with this name.
First of all, it is the Sunflower Movement in 2014, also known as the "Sunflower Student Movement".
In 2014, the Taiwan authorities reviewed the " Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement ", but because the content of the agreement conflicted with the DPP's "independence concept", the DPP began to obstruct people like to make trouble. After inciting the organization of "ulterior motives", the DPP quickly mobilized students.
On March 18, 2014, the "Sunflower Student Movement" that shocked all walks of life broke out on the island, and many students began to gather outside the "Legislative Yuan" to protest.
The next day, Lin Feifan, Chen Weiting and the protagonist of this story, Huang Guochang, led 400 students into the "Legislative Yuan" conference hall, opening the prelude to the 24-day "anti-service trade "Sunflower Student Movement".
"Legislative Yuan God of War" has gradually begun to become "famous" on the island.
It is worth noting that the halo of the "Legislative Yuan God of War" has indeed accumulated a lot of political capital for Huang Guochang.
From a political background, the supporter behind the "Sunflower Student Movement" is the Democratic Progressive Party. Huang Guochang's enthusiasm in the student movement has won the high favor of the Democratic Progressive Party.
Although Huang Guochang and others were arrested and imprisoned after the "Sunflower Student Movement", as the Democratic Progressive Party came to power, 22 activists including Huang Guochang were still acquitted and gloriously escaped after several trials by the Taiwan Court.
In a sense, the DPP and Huang Guochang are more like they have reached a transaction that will make money without losing money. On the one hand, the DPP has won the "reputation" of supporting Huang Guochang through its operation, and Huang Guochang has also won the "glorious title" of "progressive person" in the "Sunflower Student Movement".
This is also the consequence of the "political ecology" on the island. The more you perform, the more you will gain more attention and more political capital.
Although the people on the island and media outside the green media sneered at this, Taiwan's China Times once directly criticized such practices on the island, saying in the report that such a judgment brought not stability to society, but endless troubles!
But even so, Huang Guochang's life is getting better and better.
Soon he achieved more achievements in the Legislative Yuan, further consolidating the title of "Legislative Yuan God of War".
In January 2015, Huang Guochang led the establishment of the "Foreign Power" party.
The founding of this political party created the fastest battle to seize power in Taiwan’s chaotic “political arena”.
is wrapped in the halo of "Sunflower Student Movement". Huang Guochang led his "Era Power" to quickly gain public recognition and capital favor by constantly criticizing the blue and green battalions. In September 2016, "Era Power" became the third largest party in Taiwan's legislative body, and Huang Guochang also successfully became a "legislator".
In fact, after the "Sunflower Student Movement", the DPP did not succeed quickly. It originally hoped that by dragging down the "Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement" and attacking the Kuomintang's forces, it also pulled itself into the quagmire of political struggle.
Huang Guochang saw the period when the two parties were questioned and criticized by the people, and quickly gained the favor of the people on the island by hyping the so-called political concept of fighting for people's livelihood.
Perhaps it was moved by the enthusiasm of some people who did not know the truth about the "power of the times" after experiencing the student movement, and coupled with the dodge and inaction shown by the blue and green battalions in the student movement, they believed that this young political party might bring some different "changes".
is like this. Under such coincidental historical opportunity, Huang Guochang got the political capital he wanted faster than others.
It is worth noting that as the popularity faded, people were surprised to find that when the DPP came to the stage, the "power of the times" occupied an important seat, and the "Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement" that originally talked about being revised should not be left behind, and the terms that originally promised to provide greater benefits to the people on the island could not be raised again.
The original "Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement" provides more preferential and convenient market opening measures for cross-strait service industry cooperation, and also gives more development opportunities for both sides of the Taiwan Strait, which is a great benefit for the government and the people.
In fact, the DPP, Huang Guochang and others are very aware of the important role of the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement, but the agreement itself is unfavorable to their political stance and political interests.
Once the agreement is passed, it means that they cannot disrupt the situation on the island and force the Kuomintang to step down, so they can only choose to use extreme means to disrupt the passage of the agreement.
From this point of view, Huang Guochang, who is on the head with the halo of the God of War, is famous on the island. He is the leader of the student movement in his left hand and the reformer on his right hand. This seemingly independent newcomer in the political arena is actually an absolute political speculator.
2. The hard-working political speculator
Huang Guochang can be said to be a "golden phoenix" flying out of a mountain village.
In 1973, Huang Guochang was born in Xizhi, New Taipei City, Taiwan. His father has rich experience in his career, from a farmer to a miner, and then worked as an dyed cloth worker. Although Huang Guochang's father worked very hard, he still could not change Huang Guochang's poor family. In order to alleviate the financial difficulties of his family, the young Huang Guochang went out to set up a stall with his mother.
The same environment made Huang Guochang more determined to change his destiny through studying, so he showed more effort in his studies than others. In high school, he entered Taipei Jianzhong and was admitted to the law department of National Taiwan University when he was in college.
Huang Guochang, who went to university, quickly demonstrated his extraordinary talent in the "political field".
In his sophomore year, he became the president of the National Taiwan University Student Union. He soon discovered that this path of politics seemed to be more suitable for him. After graduation, in order to gain more experience, he chose to work as a professional lawyer. Three years later, in order to gain more experience, he chose to go far away to the United States to continue his studies. Finally, he obtained a doctorate in law from Cornell University in the United States in 2002.
Looking at Huang Guochang’s study and work path, it is not difficult to find that his choice of timing is always so right.
Since becoming the president of the Student Union, he quickly realized that the essence of politics is to take sides and speculation. Although engaging in the legal profession has not given him much opportunity to show his talents, the concept of speculation has always been deeply rooted in his mind.
After participating in the student movement, Huang Guochang smelled the opportunity for rapid promotion. He quickly figured out the situation that the DPP would grasp the overall situation, so he firmly stood on the side of the DPP.
"The Power of the Times" can be regarded as his pioneering work. As mentioned above, Huang Guochang used the trust of the DPP to successfully enter the political arena, and just took advantage of the struggle between the two camps of blue and green to obtain political capital in the cracks, thus reaching the peak.
's approach of getting along is the best embodiment of Huang Guochang's investment art.
All of this can be regarded as Huang Guochang's political talent. In addition, his speculative methods in relationships and family are even more amazing.
Everyone on the island understands that Huang Guochang's father-in-law can be regarded as the biggest capital behind Huang Guochang. His father-in-law Gao Xi is a famous entrepreneur on the island and his father-in-law's full support. Huang Guochang's career is smooth.
However, the media on the island seem to be deeply dissatisfied with Huang Guochang's capital support. According to the Taiwan media " Weekly Wang ", Huang Guochang's father-in-law Gao Xi made a huge investment in the mainland about ecological agricultural parks, worth up to hundreds of millions of New Taiwan dollars . Once the news of
was revealed, it immediately triggered collective ridicule from politicians on the island. The reason is that Huang Guochang has always been based on building himself as an "anti-China" fighter. He kept saying that the fighter wanted to be independent and anti-China. Even his famous fighter was closely related to the anti-China Taiwan. Now his father-in-law Gao Xi is investing in the mainland, which makes people doubt what Huang Guochang's actual position is.
In fact, the island does not know much about Huang Guochang's family situation. Because he deliberately keeps a low profile, the media reports on his family are very little. However, the father-in-law's high-profile behavior has to some extent revealed the other side of Huang Guochang for the media on the island.
Many people believe that Huang Guochang chose this marriage largely because of Gao Xi's strong financial resources, which can better serve Huang Guochang's political future.
However, in the final analysis, for Huang Guochang, his biggest bet is the DPP and Tsai Ing-wen.
In the eyes of the outside world, Huang Guochang is Tsai Ing-wen's ultimate licking dog. He has supported Tsai Ing-wen on many occasions. It is his strong loyalty that he has won the support of Tsai Ing-wen. In the above-mentioned father-in-law storm, Tsai Ing-wen also stood up as soon as possible to stand up for Huang Guo-chang, which also allowed him to successfully overcome the difficulties of the father-in-law storm.
3. Where can I go after falling from the altar?
Huang Guochang's good luck does not seem to last for too long.
, he used to speculation, chose a topic that is difficult for the people on the island to accept - same-sex marriage.
Huang Guochang has repeatedly stated that he will continue to firmly support same-sex marriage.
In April 2017, due to dissatisfaction with Huang Guochang's support for same-sex marriage, the Taiwan social group Stability Force launched a joint sign to remove Huang Guochang on New Taipei City . Immediately afterwards, the group called on the people to hold the "removal of Huang Guochang's 'country' to be healthy" paper and conduct a demonstration in Huang Guochang's hometown, attracting nearly a thousand people to join the team.
In fact, since 2016, the number of joint letters to remove Huang Guochang has exceeded 20,000.
The reason why Huang Guochang chose to support same-sex marriage was largely because he hoped to get the support of Western countries and the brand of "political correctness" could allow him to get more political votes. Once can get the strong help of the United States and other Western forces, he will become a key figure who is expected to take charge of the situation in Taiwan after Tsai Ing-wen.
And Huang Guochang also chose to take this step because he saw the current decline in Tsai Ing-wen's support rate. he also clearly realized that the Western world needs to continue to cultivate a spokesperson in Taiwan, and he hopes to use political correctness to win the favor and support of the West for him.
However, his wishful thinking was not done well, and the support rate on the island dropped to freezing point first.
I don’t know if Huang Guochang has not carefully studied the basic people’s sentiments in Taiwan. Perhaps Huang Guochang has forgotten Taiwan’s folk customs and etiquette for too long. He has always firmly believed that the political correctness of same-sex marriage will be quickly accepted by people on the island. After all, everyone is “progressive.”
Unexpectedly, the people on the island reacted so fiercely that he could not raise his head in this storm.
After this incident, Huang Guochang's downhill journey is getting smoother and smoother.
On January 21, 2019, Huang Guochang announced on social media that he had stepped down from the position of party chairman of the party with the aim of carrying out his next election with all his heart.
However, Huang Guochang's performance was not very ideal. In the previous campaign in Taichung City, Huang Guochang's team won a defeat, which aroused strong dissatisfaction from the "power of the times" party and indirectly led to Huang Guochang's resignation as the party chairman. After resigning as chairman, Huang Guochang and the party members of the "power of the times" also had evil relations one after another.
In February 2019, Chen Huimin, the new chairman of "Era Power", removed Huang Guochang from his friend list on social media. It is said that the end of the relationship between the two also originated from Huang Guochang's historical arbitrary behavior in "Era Power". He even did not even tell Chen Huimin about resigning from the chairman, which led to Chen Huimin's strong dissatisfaction.
In recent years, Huang Guochang's performance has not been satisfactory. After resigning from the chairman, Huang Guochang has never found a good way out in the political arena. In addition to the blue camp of mouth, Huang Guochang is only left to go on TV to satisfy his desire to "swear".
In contrast, the green camp is still using the "power of the times" to achieve its political goals, and even uses Huang Guochang as a propaganda tool to promote it, and has repeatedly made it hype the topic of "anti-China" in green media.
I have to say that in the end, this political speculator can still find some useful value for the green camp. This has to be admired that this old man can always make himself shine, which is really admirable.
However, under the general trend, Huang Guochang's fate will inevitably lead to destruction.
The perverted political ecological environment on the island has created his unscrupulous style and has also developed his arbitrary character.
Driven by such an attitude and personality, Huang Guochang has always been unable to find a way out. Not only can he be accommodated on the island, but it is difficult for him to find a place to settle down even if he withdraws from politics.
Although Huang Guochang can survive under the protection of the green camp, when major changes occur on Taiwan’s island, Huang Guochang’s asylum will inevitably fall. At that time, can this "Legislative Yuan God of War" really stand? The answer must be no!
References:
1. "Seeing the social and political ecology of today's Taiwan from the perspective of the "Huang Guochang's recall case""; "Unified Forum" 2018 No. 2 46-50; Li Chao
2. "The institutionalization of the political party of the "power of the times" and its dilemma"; "Taiwan Research" 2020 No. 1 49-56; Li Wencheng and Chen Xiancai
