The Democratic Progressive Party was established in Taipei City, Taiwan Province in 1986. The original intention of its establishment was to change the social situation on the island where the Kuomintang dominated. Among the original founding party elders, there were stubborn Taiwanese independence elements such as You Xikun and Su Zhenchang, as well as those of the unified faction such as Zhu Gaozheng, , Lin Zhengjie, , and Lu Chaocai. As the main backbone of the opposition to the Kuomintang movement, Xu Xinliang had already fled overseas at that time, but he still supported the sign of "DPP Overseas Branch" and became one of the founding veterans of the Democratic Progressive Party. Xu Xinliang is one of the first people in the DPP to break off diplomatic relations with the "Taiwan independence" line, and has long been regarded as a figure close to the mainland. In 2015, he also climbed the Tiananmen Gate Tower to visit the National Day military parade, and was regarded as an "activist" among the Democratic Progressive Party. Faced with the current cross-strait crisis, he also said bluntly: "Don't let the mainland despair against Taiwan so much that it must use force." I will tell you what the specific situation is.
Xu Xinliang
Xu Xinliang's history of success
Xu Xinliang was born in Zhongli County, Hsinchu Prefecture, Taiwan Province in 1941. This place has now been classified as Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan Province. This is the settlement area of Hakka on the island of Taiwan. Xu Xinliang was also born in a Hakka landlord family. Xu Xinliang has been interested in politics since he was a child. He joined the Kuomintang shortly after he entered the Political University in 1960. In the social context at that time, joining the Kuomintang was equivalent to stepping into the door within the system, with various benefits continuously. , and Xu Xinliang also became the focus of the teacher's training. In , he entered the research institute after graduating from university in 1964. It was soon appreciated by Li Huan, the head of Taiwan's administrative department. In 1967, he received a Zhongshan scholarship provided by the Kuomintang and went to the University of Edinburgh, England to study for a doctorate in philosophy, which was also a very popular major on the island of Taiwan at that time. , and after Xu Xinliang graduated from the island in 1969, he became the "monarchist" of the Kuomintang. The article "Analysis of Taiwan's Social Forces" he wrote was unanimously recommended by Li Huan and Jiang Ching-kuo , and even required the members of the Kuomintang to study it carefully.
Xu Xinliang was reused by the Kuomintang and
After getting the approval of Chiang Ching-kuo, Xu Xinliang's future was smooth sailing. became a staff member of the Kuomintang core committee in 1969, and further became a "Taiwan Provincial Councilor" in 1973, with an unlimited future. At that time, the social atmosphere of the Kuomintang was dominant on the island of Taiwan. Although the "Taiwan Provincial Assemblyman" had limited power and status, it was a springboard for many important positions. Many important members of the Kuomintang have jumped from this position to the core institutions at the upper level. For example, Lin Mingde, who is in the same term as Xu Xinliang, later became the head of Taiwan's judicial department. However, when Xu Xinliang was overseas, he had already come into contact with social groups that opposed the Kuomintang overseas, and he began to hate the Kuomintang's domineering behavior on the island. He began to become no longer tame, and even wrote public articles to criticize the Kuomintang's faults, which also made many senior Kuomintang officials dislike Xu Xinliang. 977, Xu Xinliang ignored the warnings and stops of the senior Kuomintang leaders and resolutely returned to his hometown Taoyuan County to run for the position of Taoyuan County Mayor, which was equivalent to a formal break with the Kuomintang.
Taoyuan area
the Kuomintang's local county and city mayors at that time were nominally elected through the public, but the Kuomintang could often easily control local elections by relying on its numerical advantage. As the Kuomintang, Xu Xinliang's choice to leave the Kuomintang to run for election was undoubtedly a splash and stirred up a pool of spring water. A large number of people who opposed the Kuomintang found the voting target and gathered around Xu Xinliang. Xu Xinliang, who is well versed in the "unspoken rules" of the Kuomintang, called out to the public before the election, claiming that the Kuomintang would definitely cheat on the votes. As expected, on the voting day on November 19, 1977, some people arrested Fan Jiangxinlin, the principal of Zhongli Primary School in Taoyuan County, for cheating while serving as the director of the voting office. She secretly applied ink on her thumb, pressed her handprints on a large number of votes supporting Xu Xinliang, and finally made the votes invalid.The angry people went to the police branch in the Zhongli area to report the case, which also triggered large-scale confrontation and conflict. In the end, more than 10,000 people besieged the Zhongli Police Station, and many police cars were damaged, and the chaos continued until the early morning of that day.
Xu Xinliang and Chen Ju
This large-scale conflict was later called " Zhongli incident ", and the final vote was that Xu Xinliang defeated the Kuomintang candidate Ou Xianyu with an advantage of 220,000 votes to 130,000 votes. At that time, Chiang Ching-kuo had just taken over the power, so he could only recognize Xu Xinliang's election by just being justified, but then he immediately removed all positions in the Kuomintang and completely expelled him. In 1979, the Kuomintang arrested Yu Dengfa, a father and son, on the name of rebellion, which triggered large-scale mass protests. At that time, the Kuomintang strictly prohibited the public from going to the streets to protest privately, which caused great contradictions and conflicts. Xu Xinliang also participated in the march as the current county magistrate of Taoyuan, which gave the Kuomintang an excuse to impeach Xu Xinliang, and Xu Xinliang was eventually dismissed. , Xu Xinliang directly devoted himself to the social movement against the Kuomintang and invested in the establishment of the "Beautiful Island Magazine".
Beautiful Island Trial
In December 1979, Chen Ju, Lu Xiulian, Shi Mingde, and others took to the streets to siege the Kuomintang police officers, resulting in large-scale conflict. Members were arrested and taken to the trial seat. Xu Xinliang had already fled to the United States at that time, and since then he began to work against the Kuomintang overseas, vowing to let the Kuomintang disappear from the earth. Although Xu Xinliang was exiled overseas at that time, he had a group of wealthy and powerful supporters around him, and his power continued to grow. After the founding of the Democratic Progressive Party in 1986, Xu Xinliang took on the sign of "Overseas Branch of the Democratic Progressive Party" and became one of the overseas leaders of the Democratic Progressive Party. In 1986, Xu Xinliang planned to detour from Philippines to Taiwan, but was still blocked by the Kuomintang. Xu Xinliang's supporters also fought with the Kuomintang guards at the airport. 989, after Xu Xinliang secretly returned to Taiwan from the mainland, he was arrested by the Kuomintang authorities and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Democratic Progressive Party veteran Lin Zhengjie led people to argue for Xu Xinliang and attacked the Tucheng Detention Center of the Kuomintang. In 1990, Lee Teng-hui finally pardoned Xu Xinliang.
Xu Xinliang's "Toward the mainland and Unify China"
In the more than ten years of overseas exile, Xu Xinliang's mentality also changed. His ideology began to become blurred and he became a pragmatic. He had no fanatical obsession with the theory of "Taiwan independence", and all his actions were to oppose the Kuomintang. So when he returned to Taiwan and served as chairman of the DPP in 1991, he began to go further and further away from the mainstream "Taiwan independence" argument of the DPP. In 1995, Xu Xinliang mentioned the theory of "going westward to the mainland, strengthening the foundation and strengthening the foundation". He is very optimistic about the growing mainland and the vast market in the mainland, but this is also criticized by the DPP, so that Xu Xinliang was repeatedly besieged by his own people and gradually became a minority in the DPP. In May 1999, Xu Xinliang publicly issued the declaration of "Comrades, we break up here" and officially withdrew from the Democratic Progressive Party. In 2000, he ran for the leadership of Taiwan as an independent, but received only a small number of votes. After this, Xu Xinliang's political stance became closer to the blue camp.
Xu Xinliang turns from green to blue
Mainland China has always emphasized that it is " One country, Two Systems , Unify China", while the Kuomintang is " Three Principles of the People , Unify China". Xu Xinliang also proposed "to move westward to the mainland and unify China" in 2005. He plans to imitate the EU model to promote China's unification. On the basis of the "cross-strait three links", Xu Xinliang believes that Taiwan will terminate military procurement of the United States and completely abandon "legal Taiwan independence". He also vigorously promoted communication and contact between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in the following days. In 2015, Xu Xinliang, Chairman of the "Beautiful Island Electronic News", Wu Zijia, and former representative of the DPP's public opinion, Guo Zhengliang, together climbed the Tiananmen Gate Tower to watch the military parade in the mainland. He can be regarded as activists in Taiwan's green camp. Xu Xinliang has worked between the Taiwan Strait for decades, and has also made detailed observations on cross-strait relations from the standpoint of Taiwan's green camp. He has warned about the Taiwan Strait crisis many times in recent times. He claimed: "Don't let the mainland despair towards Taiwan so much that he must use force." This sentence can be said to be a hit, but in fact it also reveals one of the potential dilemmas on Taiwan's island in the future.
Wu Zijia
Taiwan issue To this day, the political mutual trust between the two sides of the strait has basically disappeared. The important factor that can determine the direction of cross-strait development is whether the mainland's expectations for Taiwan's future have been exhausted, and whether the mainland is already desperate for a peaceful resolution of the Taiwan issue. The current Tsai Ing-wen government is leading Taiwan to an uncontrollable situation, and politicians from various countries are heading to Taiwan to check in, constantly stimulating the mainland. They are able to provoke the situation in the Taiwan Strait while also getting a lot of reward from Tsai Ing-wen, which is trapped in an uncontrollable vicious cycle. The hostility spirals between the two sides of the Strait are constantly accumulating, and the final end is war. Xu Xinliang's words also provide a negative way for the political forces on Taiwan's island to solve the current dilemma, that is, to provide some confidence to the mainland through the island's elections, so they can once again get a longer time to delay the process of unification.
Tsai Ing-wen colluded with external forces
History political atmosphere on the island is now "green is greater than blue". Although the Kuomintang experienced cruel pursuit and encirclement after Tsai Ing-wen came to power, the party's property was confiscated in large quantities and the accounts were completely frozen, and even the wages of employees could not be paid for a period of time. But recently, the Kuomintang has boosted its momentum due to the DPP scandal. Some media even believe that in the 2022 Taiwan county and city mayor election, the Kuomintang will win 17 seats of county and city mayors in 22 counties and cities across Taiwan, and there will only be 5 counties and cities controlled by the Democratic Progressive Party. It is difficult for us to make a conclusion whether such a situation will happen. However, even if the Kuomintang is lucky enough to win the election at the end of the year, does it mean that there is a bright future for the two sides of the Taiwan Strait? I don't think this is the case! The Taiwan independence atmosphere on Taiwan has taken shape. The reason why the Kuomintang has gained an advantage in recent elections is not only because the Democratic Progressive Party’s rebellious actions are unpopular, but also because the Kuomintang has established the “pro-US, friendly to Japan, and far-far China” line. , especially the Kuomintang, has been constantly emphasizing their hostility to the mainland's red regime, so the Kuomintang is doomed to be unable to move towards the mainland.
Korean Party Chairman Zhu Lilun
Even if the Kuomintang won the election at the end of the year, it was just an excuse to delay unification. To deal with the Taiwan Strait issue, what we need is not a placebo but a heart attack. The mainland's long-term measures to benefit Taiwan are still unable to vigorously promote the process of unification, and there are almost no substantial unification results between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, which is also the reason why many mainland people are dissatisfied with the status quo. The fundamental contradiction between the mainland and Taiwan is not whether the Kuomintang can replace the DPP and regain power, but whether there are still political forces on the island willing to promote cross-strait unification. According to the poll data in April this year, 52.7% of the people support "Taiwan independence", 16% hope for cross-strait reunification, and 16.9% maintain the status quo. The sound of unity has declined. The mainland’s hope for Taiwan should not be the Kuomintang, but the mainland itself. To be honest, the current situation on Taiwan is already disappointing enough. The reason why the mainland still puts "peaceful reunification" in a high enough position is because it is still caring about family affection.
Taiwan naval wars and dangerous
The mainland has never ruled out military options, and it does not have to wait until it is completely desperate to use force. Sadness, humiliation, and stop loss in order to timely may cause smoke to fill the Taiwan Strait. The choice of war is controlled by the mainland, while the choice of peace is in the hands of the Taiwanese. The mainland still has expectations for the people in Taiwan, and the door to negotiations is still open. But if the United States and Taiwan authorities continue to provoke on the Taiwan Strait issue again, unpredictable emergencies may come at any time. There are hundreds of people in the family and one person in charge. In addition to family affection, there are family rules. If Taiwan chooses to continue provoking the mainland, we will not sit idly by and slapped civil strife and severely punish thieves.
