Xu Xinliang is a founding veteran of the DPP. Although he was not on the island when the DPP was founded in 1986 at the Yuanshan Hotel in Taipei, the DPP still regards him as an important core member.

Xu Xinliang is a founding veteran of the DPP. Although he was not on the island when the DPP was founded in 1986 at the Yuanshan Hotel in Taipei City, the DPP still regards him as an important core member. He also served as the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party twice in the 1990s. Because he was dissatisfied with Chen Shui-bian's rebellious actions within the Democratic Progressive Party and the "anti-China" wave set off by Tsai Ing-wen and others, he had long been strangers to the mainstream Democratic Progressive Party. The Xu family is a big family in Taoyuan area. Xu Xinliang's younger brother Xu Guotai and his wife have both served as representatives of public opinion in the legislative body. Xu Guotai and Xu Xinliang have consistent positions on cross-strait issues. They are pragmatic and call on the DPP not to challenge the basic position of the mainland and to strengthen economic cooperation. Xu Guotai also extremely disgusted with Tsai Ing-wen's arbitrary behavior, claiming that the DPP is about to collapse in the 2022 election. I will tell you what the specific situation is.

Xu Guotai

Cross-strait thinking of Xu Xinliang's family

Xu Xinliang is an Hakka from Taoyuan area. The Xu family is also a big family in the Zhongli area of ​​Taoyuan and has deep political connections. Xu Xinliang served as a Taiwanese provincial legislator and Taoyuan County Mayor in the 1970s, and was highly supported by local people. Even though he later went into exile overseas due to the Kuomintang's encirclement and pursuit, his connections have not decreased but increased. Later, when he served as the chairman of the DPP from 1991 to 1993 and 1996 to 1998, the DPP achieved very impressive results. In the 1997 Taiwan local county and city mayor election, the DPP won more than half of the county and city mayor seats in Taiwan. This is the first time that the DPP has won more than half of the local ruling power in Taiwan, breaking the power barriers that the KMT firmly controls. , and this also has a very close relationship with the Xu family. Xu Xinliang fled to the United States in 1979 and began his exile. His younger brother Xu Guotai continued to run around the island's political arena instead, continuing Xu Xinliang's political context.

Xu Xinliang

Hsu Guotai is different from his brother Xu Xinliang who once studied in the UK. His academic performance is not very good. After graduating from the Department of Business Administration of Datong Institute of Technology, he entered society. He has opened a color printing factory locally and worked as a business manager in a shoe company. He has rich experience at the grassroots level. In 1977, when Xu Xinliang officially announced his candidacy for Taoyuan County Mayor, Xu Guotai also joined his brother's camp and became his election director general. After Xu Xinliang fled overseas, Xu Guotai joined the Xu Rongshu , who was running for the representative of public opinion in the legislature at the time. Xu Rongshu was also one of the officials who actively opposed the Kuomintang on Taiwan Island back then, and was also one of the "Eighteen Elders" who founded the Democratic Progressive Party. After Xu Rongshu successfully elected a representative of public opinion in 1981, Xu Guotai also joined the legislative body as a representative of public opinion in 1989, which was equivalent to taking over his brother's political mantle. It was also that year that Xu Xinliang wanted to quietly return to Taiwan while Jiang Jingguo had just passed away, but he was arrested as soon as he got off the plane. The Kuomintang soon sentenced Xu Xinliang to 10 years in prison for "rebellion". only one year later, Xu Xinliang was released by Lee Teng-hui's special pardon.

Xu Rongshu

Xu Xinliang officially served as the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party at the end of 1991, and the Xu family has also entered the political arena in full. In addition to Xu Guotai serving as a public opinion representative for the legislative body for seven years, Xu Xinliang's wife Zhong Bixia also selected a public opinion representative for the legislative body in 1999. Xu Xinliang's nephew Xu Yingshen served as deputy county magistrate of Taoyuan County, acting county magistrate and deputy director of Taiwan's internal affairs department. Another nephew, Xu Yingwu, ran for Taoyuan County Councillor, and his nephew Cai Shiping has also become a well-known political media person. The Xu family's long-term cross-strait route has been "political cold and economic hot". They advocate that Taiwan should integrate with the mainland as soon as possible in terms of economy, and that politically they can be shelved for a period of time before negotiation. In 1995, Xu Xinliang proposed the concept of "going westward to the mainland, strengthening the foundation and strengthening the foundation" within the Democratic Progressive Party. Chen Shui-bian, Lu Xiulian, Tse Changting and others also visited the mainland one after another, and the DPP also fought with the mainland during this period.However, after Chen Shui-bian rose, he gradually turned the DPP into a tool for him to plunder money, and the Xu family began to be in harmony with the DPP. In 2000, Xu Xinliang withdrew from the DPP and returned only in 2008.

Xu Yingshen

High perspective from a political standpoint, the Xu family seems very pragmatic. They hope that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait can open up a new "golden era" through economic integration and development. Xu Xinliang was also invited to Beijing on September 3, 2015 to participate in the conference commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Xu Xinliang said afterwards: "China leads the world, and Taiwan can help." In 2018, Xu Guotai also publicly declared on the island:

"If the reforms promoted by the DPP make people's lives worse, the reform is wrong. The only criterion for testing policies is whether people's lives are improved. The lives of the Kuomintang are as bad as those under the DPP's rule. No wonder the grassroots people want to manage mainland China."

Compared with Tsai Ing-wen, the DPP's DPP, who constantly emphasizes ideology, the political starting point of the Xu Xinliang family is people's livelihood and welfare, which is the most basic pragmatic people's livelihood. They hope that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will first reach a consensus on people's livelihood and economic issues, and then there will be a tacit understanding and foundation for the great cause of unification. The mainland also had the same idea during Ma Ying-jeou's rule in Taiwan, focusing on the economy and avoiding talking about politics. However, the DPP's public opinion offensive and cognitive battles are too fierce, which makes the people on the island no longer pay attention to people's livelihood and their minds are full of ideology. Taiwan has repeatedly cut off power and water in the summer, and the cost of living of the people has doubled, but they still choose to support the DPP, which is also the chronic disease today.

Taiwan has a shortage of water in summer, and people are queuing up to receive water

The election situation of the DPP collapses, and the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will usher in a dawn?

2022 is the year of the election for county and city mayors in Taiwan. The DPP has caused a sluggish election situation due to Tsai Ing-wen's arbitrary behavior. According to data, the DPP may only hold 4-6 seats in Taiwan’s 22 counties and cities by the end of the year. Xu Guotai saw this situation and admitted: "The DPP has no right and wrong at all, and the election at the end of the year may collapse across Taiwan. Not only in northern Taiwan, but also in the central and southern regions, even Kaohsiung and Tainan are in danger." He believes that this is all because Tsai Ing-wen forced the nomination rights of county and city mayors in various places, which made the DPP deviate from its original spirit of creation and triggered internal factional struggle. Xu Guotai was very dissatisfied with Tsai Ing-wen's domineering attitude. He claimed: "Tsai Ing-wen came from the Kuomintang and learned completely the Kuomintang's style. Some people will be repaired if they are disobedient. Isn't that the same as Empress Dowager Cixi?" In this year's election, many veterans of the Democratic Progressive Party stood up to oppose Tsai Ing-wen. For example, Zheng Baoqing, the in Taoyuan City, was because he couldn't stand Tsai Ing-wen's "one-man show" that he came forward to run for the mayor of Taoyuan, claiming that he would get the former DPP back.

Zheng Baoqing

The election at the end of the year is indeed related to Tsai Ing-wen's political career. Once it collapses completely, Tsai Ing-wen must resign from her position as chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party. The Democratic Progressive Party will become the world of Lai Ching-te, and in order to revitalize morale, they will inevitably continue to make a big fuss in cross-strait relations and make waves between the Taiwan Strait. Simply put, if you don’t choose well by the end of this year, Tsai Ing-wen’s authority will collapse, but the DPP may not completely collapse, and the two sides of the Taiwan Strait may deteriorate even further. Cross-strait relations are now actually falling into a vicious cycle. The cross-strait economic integration and development that we once had high hopes for is now weakening the driving force for unification. The collapse of the DPP's election situation at the end of this year can be said to be the only good news between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in the past three years, but how this good news should be applied tests our wisdom. At this point, history has left us with experience and lessons.

Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Ching-teh

In 2018, the Kuomintang was full of momentum. Under the powerful momentum of Kaohsiung Mayor's candidate Han Kuo-yu , the Kuomintang almost completely crushed the DPP and took away Kaohsiung City, a major southern city that the DPP had been in charge for more than ten years. At that time, the mainland had high expectations for a bright future for cross-strait relations. However, as the DPP and the United States continued to provoke troubles in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places, they created conflicts, and even caused large-scale chaos. The reputation of the Kuomintang was gradually disintegrated under these waves of offensives. In the end, Han Kuo-yu not only lost the general election in 2020, but also the mayor of Kaohsiung was dismissed. Cross-strait relations have also fallen to the bottom due to a series of operations by the Democratic Progressive Party. Due to the continuous provocation of the United States, the Taiwan Strait is even more in a situation of fierce war. However, the total trade volume between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is rising, and even reached an unprecedented high in 2020. Taiwan has made more than US$100 billion in profits from the mainland, which shows that just expanding in the field of people's livelihood emphasized by Xu Xinliang and others is no longer enough to fight against the Taiwan independence forces on the island and the external forces led by the United States.

Kuo Yu

One thing we should recognize is that Taiwan’s economic development is far earlier than the mainland. They experienced the “golden age” of the economy in the 1970s, and Taiwan also had a situation where “money flooded the feet”. Even today, the total economic output of the mainland has far exceeded that of Taiwan, and the economic development on Taiwan’s island has stagnated, but the overall living standards of Taiwanese society have not fluctuated significantly. Our measures to benefit Taiwan and preferential policies after unification are very attractive to the Taiwanese people who are now inseparable from food and clothing. We proposed last year that the Taiwan budget will be used for people's livelihood. Each Taiwanese people can increase their income by at least NT$20,000 per year. However, the 20,000 yuan figure is really limited to the Taiwanese people and cannot constitute a strong recognition. On the contrary, some island media with ulterior motives are still taking advantage of the situation, using "Would you like to exchange 20,000 yuan for freedom?" as the title, performing a false-looking operation on the island, further enhancing the misunderstanding between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Taiwan's economic development is earlier than the mainland

From historical experience, under the normal economic development state, the people on Taiwan's island are unlikely to resonate with the mainland on people's livelihood issues. Therefore, the means of "hiding Taiwan and poor Taiwan" are worth our consideration. More importantly, it is to guide the pragmatic people on the island politically and re-aware of the people's attention to people's livelihood. In order to support Chen Shui-bian, Taiwanese people once made the absurd remarks that "if you have to flatten your belly, you have to stand up with Ah Bian", but in fact they were just "not crying until you see the coffin, and not giving up until you are Yellow River ". If Taiwanese people really experience the feeling of declining living standards and degrading consumption levels due to the evil cross-strait relations, I believe they will definitely change. The great cause of unification between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait cannot be delayed, nor can it fall into a deadlock. As long as we use our kindness and power, and let the Taiwanese people feel our determination and confidence to unify Taiwan, we can find the best way to solve the Taiwan issue and let Taiwan Island return to the embrace of the motherland as soon as possible.