Now that the "nine-in-one" election for local county and city mayors in Taiwan at the end of November is approaching, the DPP authorities once again commemorated their most familiar "tactics" of "anti-China and Taiwan protection" to urge the Taiwanese people, but more and more Taiwanese people no longer take that trick. Even if the United States is fueling the fire, it has had side effects.
not only made it difficult for the Taiwan military to recruit soldiers, but even Taiwan’s foreign-funded enterprises have withdrawn their investment early in order to worry that Taiwan will become the "second Ukraine", resulting in a decline in the exchange rate of NT$ and the stock market. Taiwan’s economic development was deeply hit. If Taiwan’s economy cannot recover in the short term, it will inevitably become a major problem for the DPP authorities.
And for the "nine-in-one election" at the end of the year, there are two major problems facing the DPP authorities.
The first problem is that, despite opposition from inside and outside the party, Tsai Ing-wen insisted on nominating Chen Shi-chung, the former commander of the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center in response to the health public crisis, was a candidate for Taipei mayor of the DPP authorities.
From before Tsai Ing-wen made this decision, relevant analysts on and outside the island asserted that Tsai Ing-wen's choice undoubtedly pushed the DPP authorities to the brink of collapse, because Chen's previous practices and statements in response to the outbreak of the health public crisis have aroused many doubts and oppositions from the Taiwanese people.
Now more and more Taiwanese people are taking this opportunity to question the DPP authorities' series of policies, so they will not choose candidates elected by the DPP authorities in the county and city mayor election at the end of the year.
Therefore, You Yinglong, head of the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation, believes that the DPP will not exceed 4 seats among the 22 county and city mayor seats in Taiwan by the end of the year.
In addition to the problems that come from within the DPP authorities, the United States' "helping out" is also another important factor.
Recently, US Secretary of State Blinken has made continuous remarks that are unfavorable to the stability of the Taiwan Strait, and the United States' idea of turning Taiwan into its "arsitting" in Asia-Pacific region has become increasingly obvious. A series of practices have expressed to the outside world that the United States will interfere in cross-strait affairs at a deeper level than before.
In addition to these, Taiwan's economy has also experienced considerable problems.
According to a recent report by Taiwan's "This Weekly": The strengthening of the US dollar in Taiwan is due to foreign capital speculation in the Taipei stock market and foreign exchange market. The decline in the New Taiwan dollar exchange rate this year is mainly due to the rapid deterioration of cross-strait relations.
Review of the mainland's policy to Taiwan in recent years, the basic discussions on peaceful reunification and One country, two systems have not changed. The reason for provoking the deterioration of cross-strait relations is actually that the US and DPP authorities, in addition to senior US officials constantly sending the signal of "accelerated unification of mainland China" to the Taiwanese people, causing panic, as one of the supporters behind the US government, American arms dealers are also using the deteriorating cross-strait relations to create wealth for themselves, and the only one of the suckers is the DPP authorities.
According to sources on the island, the "Taiwanese authorities" may implement new service regulations in 2024. The DPP was originally looking forward to obtaining a large number of votes from young people, but due to the emergence of this news, young people in Taiwan and their parents have a very distrust of the DPP authorities. Such distrust will also lead to the DPP authorities' potential failure in the county and city mayor elections at the end of the year.
Now, due to the continuous deterioration of cross-strait relations, the United States has frequently released the intention to move TSMC away, and even reported that "Once the war between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait begins, it will send special planes to take TSMC's engineers away, and then blow up TSMC." Under such unfavorable news, a trend of selling TSMC's stocks has been set off.
Since TSMC is the most important stock in the Taiwan stock market, such a large-scale selling has also hit the Taiwan stock market hard, which has caused other stocks to be affected, triggering a sharp decline in the Taiwan stock market.
What makes Taiwanese workers even more anxious now is that the DPP authorities are afraid of the continued loss of large-scale foreign capital, the continued decline of the stock market, and the removal of TSMC, which will lead to unstable people in Taiwan and affect their "ruling foundation", so they keep spending money in an attempt to reverse the situation.
However, according to relevant information, the Taiwan Labor Fund has shrunk by NT$320 billion (about NT$72 billion) from January to August this year, and it also has an average of NT$17,000 (about NT$3825.58) per Taiwanese worker.
If the United States continues to make unfavorable remarks about the situation in the Taiwan Strait, domestic and foreign capital will continue to flee and the economy will continue to suffer setbacks. How will Tsai Ing-wen deal with it? In addition, the war between Russia and Ukraine is gradually stalemate, and the United States is eager to open up a new "battlefield". Perhaps the Taiwanese people are getting worse and worse.
