CCTV News: 2018 Spring Festival For Taiwanese people, it can be described as a idiom: the little baby picks up firecrackers - panic.
First, the Taiwanese authorities did not allow mainland airlines to apply for overtime during the Spring Festival, which affected 50,000 passengers. Almost at the same time, Taiwanese people could not even maintain the "little happiness" of low prices for biological products. The first sentence they said to meet in the New Year is not "congratulations on getting rich", but "Did you buy it?" What's going on?
Taiwanese people are snatching toilet paper crazy. Image source: Overseas Network
Recently, the heads of several stores in Taiwan said that in mid-March, the rise in pulp costs will lead to a 10% increase in the price of toilet paper in the store. This incident fermented quickly after being reported, and Taiwanese people have started stocking up toilet paper, and the toilet paper shelves are empty, both in various stores and e-commerce platforms. Taiwanese media said: The picture is absurd and sad.
Although the "Consumer Protection Department" of Taiwan's administrative agency held an emergency press conference on the afternoon of the 25th, it said that prices will never rise in mid-March, but Taiwanese people ignored it and continued to rush to buy toilet paper without any mercy.
As we all know, small toilet paper is not a luxury. Even if you grab the amount for a year, you won’t save much money, let alone you have to accumulate at home and consume it slowly. However, when Taiwanese people heard the price increase, they became frightened and rushed to buy. Behind this phenomenon is the fragility and uneasiness of the people.
toilet paper prices suddenly rose sharply. Although it was affected by the rise in international raw materials prices, are international fluctuations only targeting Taiwan? Have the authorities made early warnings and formulated measures? Do producers may hoard and goug, and do they need inspection and prevention?
From the current situation, the answer is no.
Just when the people were anxious, the Tsai Ing-wen authorities did not take any specific measures, but simply kept calling out to the people to believe in Taiwan and the DPP. What's more, on the 23rd, Tsai Ing-wen suddenly made personnel adjustments to the "National Security" but most of them were changing seats. The media commented that "changing soup but not changing medicines", and the people even expressed "no feelings".
When cross-strait relations continue to sluggish and major policies remain unchanged, reorganization has few positive significance for the development of Taiwanese society in addition to showing personal will.
Free food, rice, oil and salt, the government is indifferent to the public's major issues. Do you think the people are enjoying hoarding toilet paper? The action of buying toilet paper reflects the dilemma of people's lives. According to the latest media reports, Taiwan's administrative agencies announced the statistical results of Taiwan's industrial and service industry wages and productivity in 2017. In 2017, the average monthly recurring salary per person in Taiwan was NT$39,953 NT$6, with an annual growth rate of 1.82%, while the monthly actual recurring salary per person was NT$37,781 NT$37,781 NT$, with an annual growth rate of 1.20%, which is still below the level 18 years ago and 2000 (NT$37,801).
"The Democratic Progressive Party canvasses to go to power, claiming that I have increased my salary, but as a result, wages keep falling and prices are rising." A limerick poem truly shows the voice of the Taiwanese people.
The salary does not increase, and the public can only save as much as possible. How can the Taiwan authorities not notice it? Taiwanese political critic Huang Zhixian sarcastically said that toilet paper was regarded as the most valuable thing in the past. After the DPP came to power, it turned decay into magic, rewritten the value of toilet paper, and united Taiwan, because everyone has ambition to grab toilet paper together. Taiwan's internet celebrity "curator" Chen Zhihan was so mean on Facebook that Tsai Ing-wen "can't even manage toilet paper well, she can only draw tigers (Minnan dialect, bragging meaning)."
In fact, there are many examples of the Taiwanese authorities abandoning the interests of the people and even using the interests of the people to achieve certain political means. On February 6, after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred in Hualien, Taiwan, the Taiwan authorities refused mainland aid, but only asked Japan for help. Abe handwritten "Come on Taiwan", Tsai Ing-wen calls it "true love in times of trouble" in Japanese, and the two of them have done enough superficial skills. A Japanese rescue team composed of seven experts and two deep life detectors, , arrived in Taiwan, saying that the role it played was the instructor and technology provider.During the search and rescue period, a video titled " Hualien Earthquake Search and Rescue Site, Japanese Rescue Team: We Can't Get In Dangerous Areas" was circulated widely on the Internet. Some netizens couldn't help but complain: "If you don't enter the rescue, why are you doing?"
Some netizens said that if the rescue troops sent by the mainland arrived at the scene, they would never stand by and watch.
However, some people also explained that this is the concept of Japan's rescue, which means that we must only go to rescue while ensuring our safety.
Let’s go back to the previous article. At the beginning of the article, the Taiwanese authorities rejected the mainland airline’s overtime flight during the Spring Festival. In response to the questioning and condemnation of all parties, the Taiwanese authorities also “blame” and said that “it has never said that it will not be approved, but that the industry does not communicate well”, so they put the blame completely.
The Taiwan authorities' practice of buying plants and returning pearls is inevitably a joke. Even international media such as the BBC have used this incident of snatching toilet paper to make headlines. Xiaoxiao toilet paper reveals the nature of inaction by the authorities. If you underestimate the trend of buying toilet paper, be careful to pay the heavy price.
