This is the third time Tsai Ing-wen has resigned!
On the evening of November 26, Tsai Ing-wen announced her resignation as chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party to show her responsibility for the party's performance in the "nine-in-one" election in Taiwan.
Many friends were so excited that they couldn't sleep, and it felt that the recovery of Taiwan was just around the corner. In fact, this is a manifestation of total lack of understanding of Taiwan’s electoral system. Little did Tsai Ing-wen resigned from the position of party chairman since she was elected as chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party in 2008.
On January 14, 2012, Tsai Ing-wen lost to Ma Ying-jeou in the Taiwan leadership election. That night she announced her resignation as the party chairman to show her responsibility. (the first time announcing his resignation as party chairman)
The DPP was prepared and immediately elected the stubborn Taiwanese independence factionist Su Zhenchang as the party chairman.
On May 25, 2014, the DPP held a party chairman election, and Tsai Ing-wen was re-elected as chairman of the DPP.
On January 16, 2016, Tsai Ing-wen was elected as the leader of Taiwan in the election of leaders of Taiwan.
On November 24, 2018, Taiwan held a "nine-in-one" election. The important news came that evening that the DPP was defeated and Tsai Ing-wen announced her resignation as chairman of the DPP to show her responsibility for the party's performance in the "nine-in-one" election in Taiwan. (the second announcement of resignation as party chairman)
Shortly after Tsai Ing-wen resigned, the Central Standing Committee of the DPP elected Keelung Mayor Lin Youchang as acting chairman. This was just a trick of "the king's flag changes on the city".
At that time, Shanghai Taiwan Research Association researcher Zhou Zhongfei evaluated Tsai Ing-wen resigned as the party chairman in order to "avoid the important and retreat openly and secretly."
When Tsai Ing-wen resigned as chairman of the DPP, she claimed that she would "continue to complete Taiwan's reform", sending a signal that the DPP would not hand over power and would not give up its "Taiwan independence" proposition.
Sure enough, On January 11, 2020, Tsai Ing-wen was re-elected as the leader of Taiwan.
On November 26, 2022, the Democratic Progressive Party won 14 seats in Taiwan's "nine-in-one" election, the Kuomintang won 7 seats, and another one was non-party. This shows that Tsai Ing-wen is "incompetent in governing the party", and the Taiwanese people are not satisfied with the local governance of the Democratic Progressive Party.
So Tsai Ing-wen announced her resignation as chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party to show her responsibility for the party's performance in the "nine-in-one" election in Taiwan. (Announced to resign as party chairman for the third time)
This is nothing new, Ma Ying-jeou has resigned. In the "nine-in-one" election on December 2, 2014, the Kuomintang won only 6 seats and the Democratic Progressive Party won 13 seats. Ma Ying-jeou immediately resigned from the position of chairman of the Kuomintang at the "Zhongshan Report" of the high-level party meeting to express his responsibility for the "nine-in-one" election of local public officials.
The so-called "nine-in-one" election refers to local regular elections held during the four-year term of leadership in Taiwan. The Taiwan "Election Association" will be the one that will be held -
1, " mayor directly under the "
2, "Municipal directly under the central government" councillor
3, county (city) mayor
4, county (city) Councillors,
5, township (town) mayor
6, township (town) people's representatives,
7, "mountainous district mayor of the municipality directly under the central government"
8, "mountainous district mayor of the municipality directly under the central government"
9, village (town) mayor
6, and nine types of local public officials merged to vote on the same day.
's "nine-in-one" election is not only about the election of local "heads", but also the general inspection of Tsai Ing-wen's policy. It is a vote of confidence and a "outpost battle" of the 2024 "presidential" election.
Tsai Ing-wen's "resignation" was due to the setback of the DPP's election, and she had to "take responsibility", but the deeper reason was the result of the widening gap between the rich and the poor in Taiwan, the deterioration of social security, and the deterioration of cross-strait relations.
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Taiwan issue essence
What is the essence of the Taiwan issue?
is essentially a Sino-US contradiction, and it is a problem of the struggle between control and anti-control between two major powers in the world.
——Historically, the United States was the initiator of the Taiwan issue. 1949 was founded on October 1, 1949. Some military and political personnel of the Kuomintang group retreated to Taiwan. On June 25, 1950, the Korean War broke out, and the US government immediately announced that the Seventh Fleet blocked Taiwan Strait , causing the state of isolation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. In December 1954, the United States signed the so-called "Common Defense Treaty" with the Taiwanese authorities, placing China's Taiwan Province under the "protection" of the United States. The US government's wrong policies in its continued interference in China's internal affairs have caused a long-term tense confrontation in the Taiwan Strait region. The Taiwan issue has since become a major dispute between China and the United States.
In order to ease tensions in the Taiwan Strait region, from August 1955 to February 1970, China and the United States held 136 ambassador-level talks, but no progress was made on the key issue of easing and eliminating tensions in the Taiwan Strait region.
and as the late 1960s and early 1970s, with the development and changes of the international situation and the growth of the New China, the United States began to adjust its policy toward China, and the relationship between the two countries gradually showed a thaw. In October 1971, the 26th United Nations General Assembly passed resolution 2758 to restore all legitimate rights of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations and expel the "representative" of the Taiwan authorities.
In February 1972, US President Nixon visited China, and China and the United States issued the joint communiqué in Shanghai. The communiqué said: "The United States has realized that all Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait believe that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of China. The US government does not object to this position."
In December 1978, the US government accepted the three principles of establishing diplomatic relations proposed by the Chinese government, namely: the United States "severe diplomatic relations" with the Taiwan authorities, abolishing the "Common Defense Treaty" and withdrawing troops from Taiwan.
China and the United States officially established diplomatic relations on January 1, 1979.
Joint Communiqué for the Establishment of Diplomacy of China and the United States Statement: "The United States of America recognizes that the Government of the People's Republic of China is China's only legal government. Within this scope, the American people will maintain cultural, business and other unofficial ties with the people of Taiwan"; "The government of the United States of America recognizes China's position that there is only one China and Taiwan is part of China."
Since then, Sino-US relations have been normalized.
But unfortunately, it was only three months after China and the United States established diplomatic relations. The US Congress passed the so-called "Relations with Taiwan Law" and was signed and taken into effect by the US President.
The "Relations with Taiwan Law" in the form of domestic legislation in the United States has made many provisions that violate the principles of China-US diplomatic relations and international law, seriously damaging the rights and interests of the Chinese people. According to this Relations Law, the US government continues to sell weapons to Taiwan and interfere in China's internal affairs, obstructing the unification of Taiwan and mainland China.
In order to solve the problem of US weapons sales in Taiwan, the Chinese and US governments reached an agreement on August 17, 1982 through negotiations and issued the third joint communiqué on Sino-US relations, referred to as " China-US 817 Communiqué ".
The US government stated in the communiqué: "It does not seek to implement a policy of long-term selling of weapons to Taiwan. The weapons it sells to Taiwan will not exceed the level of supply in recent years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States. It is ready to gradually reduce its weapons to Taiwan, and after a period of time, it will lead to a final solution." However, until today, the US government has not only not seriously implemented the provisions of the communiqué, but also has continued to violate the communiqué, which has added new obstacles and obstacles to the development of Sino-US relations and the resolution of the Taiwan issue.
——Practically speaking, Taiwan is the pawn used by the United States to deal with mainland China. Both the Trump administration and the Biden administration regard China as the "most serious opponent". In order to maintain the so-called "boss", transfer domestic contradictions, and cater to anti-China populism, we have formed gangs to strengthen suppression and containment of China, played the "Taiwan card", and made a series of "playing with fire" and "crossing the line" actions on the Taiwan issue.
First, increase arms sales to Taiwan. Biden has been in power for more than a year and has sold weapons to Taiwan five times. This year, it has sold weapons to Taiwan four times in a row, with the frequency and quota set new highs, with the cumulative amount exceeding US$20 billion. This seriously violates the three joint communiqués of one-China principle and China-US joint communiqué regulations.
The second is to continuously increase the level of officials visiting Taiwan. Since the U.S. Senate passed the so-called "Taiwan Interaction Act" in 2018, U.S. executive officials and members of Congress have visited Taiwan many times, and the frequency and level of exchanges between the two sides have increased significantly. In 2022 alone, former US Secretary of State Pompeo , US Congressional Members' Visiting Mission, and the "Atlantic Council" Visiting Mission led by former US Secretary of Defense Esper visited Taiwan. Until August 2, Pelosi went to Taiwan, becoming the highest-level politician in the past 25 years, causing a crisis in Sino-US relations and world tensions. This goes against the U.S. commitment to maintaining unofficial relations with Taiwan only.
On the evening of August 2, 2022, Pelosi visited Taiwan
The third is to support Taiwan to expand its international space. The United States continues to instigate the Taiwan authorities to break through the "international space" and support its participation in international organizations in an attempt to promote the "internationalization" of the Taiwan issue. This seriously violates UN General Assembly resolution 2758 and the one-China principle.
Fourth, support Taiwan and the mainland to "decouple and break chains" in the economic and trade field, reduce dependence on the mainland's economy and trade, and restrict cross-strait cooperation in the science and technology field. At the same time, the Tsai Ing-wen administration took foreign powers and stubbornly adhered to the argument of "Taiwan independence", successively put forward the "two-strait mutual non-affiliation theory", refused to recognize "1992 Consensus ", encouraged and utilized populism, incited cross-strait confrontation, advocated "defending democracy and freedom", and vigorously cooperated with the American performance, with the goal of separating Taiwan from China. Such actions seriously challenge the one-China principle and the core interests of the Chinese nation, undermining the status quo of cross-strait and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait region.
The United States will use any means to play the "Taiwan card" to suppress and curb China's development, constantly distort and blur the one-China principle, violate its commitments to the Chinese government on the Taiwan issue, and violate the basic norms of international relations. It is a "troublemaker" who will completely change the current situation in the Taiwan Strait region. In addition, the Tsai Ing-wen administration is willing to be a "chess piece" and "accomplice" of the United States, "resisting unification with force" and "using force to seek independence with force", undermining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
—From the perspective of interests, only by attacking the United States on a frontal battlefield and raising the cost of its interference can the Taiwan issue be completely solved. After 1949, although the Taiwan issue became a problem for China, the Taiwan independence issue did not become a problem for China. No one on both sides of the Taiwan Strait was worried that Taiwan would split from China. The reason is very simple. Chiang Kai-shek said: "Whoever dares to engage in Taiwan independence will destroy anyone's head." This is also the background of the double act between the Kinmen Artillery Battle in 1958, and it is also the confidence of Chairman Mao when he met with Nixon to talk about the Taiwan issue, saying, "We can ignore them for the time being, let's talk about it in a hundred years."
It can be said that has a consensus on the issue of "one China", but this consensus is not in line with the interests of the United States. So from the Sun Liren mutiny in 1954 to the rise of the Taiwan independence movement, there are shadows of American forces behind it. Since the era of Jiang's father and son, the United States has become the base of Taiwan independence elements. The first target country for Taiwan independence elements who were hunted by Jiang's father and son was the United States. When Jiang Ching-kuo visited the United States, he was assassinated by Taiwan independence elements. This shows the US-Taiwan relations at that time.
Sun Liren and the US military are
The relationship between the United States and Taiwan, the father and son of the Jiang family and the United States have always been a mutually exploited relationship. The Jiang family and son of the Jiang family use the United States to maintain their own existence, but they will never allow the United States to split Taiwan from China. Mao and Jiang fought for different political views for a lifetime, but they were all Chinese. However, since the latter two Chiang Kai-shek era, cross-strait relations have undergone qualitative changes. The Taiwan issue has changed from a three-way countermeasure between mainland China, Taiwan and the United States to a complete pawn of the United States to control the mainland.
After more than 30 years of Taiwan independence education, with the death of the older generation of Taiwanese immigrants, it is obviously unrealistic to simply rely on the Taiwanese people, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to take back Taiwan without a fight. In terms of relations with the United States, it is naive to exchange for the US retreat on the Taiwan issue through just some goodwill we release, and even major concessions in economic interests.
Because no matter how big the benefits we give up, they are not as good as the benefits that the United States can obtain through Taiwan. How could the United States give up this long-term meal ticket for short-term interests? No matter how much you give in, can you get more if it is held in your hands for a long time?
So I think that if the United States wants to make concessions on the Taiwan issue, there is only one way to go for toughness. This kind of toughness is not just verbal toughness, but requires strategic thinking and bottom-line thinking , do your own thing in China and be prepared to deal with all risks and challenges. Military preparations for war training, self-sufficiency in food, economic reduction of external dependence in , self-reliance in technology, etc., abandon fantasies and prepare for struggle.
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Countermeasures against Taiwan demonstrate Chinese wisdom
From a strategic perspective, the essence of the Taiwan issue is the Sino-US issue.
So, from a tactical perspective, how to deal with the Taiwan issue should be analyzed specifically based on the specific problems of , depending on the international situation and the domestic preparations.
August 2, 2022, in order to divert domestic contradictions and get rid of the semiconductor scandal of himself and her husband, Pelosi, by the way, made a big pie for Taiwan independence elements and visited Taiwan.
Faced with the landing of Pelosi's plane, some netizens couldn't help but complain, be sad, and be disappointed, but they didn't know that behind this, a thrilling game was kicking off.
Just as Western media and Taiwan independence activists were cheering for Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, just 10 minutes after Pelosi's plane landed, the Chinese military announced a large-scale military exercise in the Taiwan Strait.
Just as Pelosi flew to Taiwan, eight American fighter jets took off from Okinawa, Japan. At the same time, several American tankers were also on standby, plus two aircraft carrier battle groups , this is not to protect Pelosi. This is clearly a way to abandon Pelosi as bait, and the rhythm of taking action with China in the Taiwan Strait is ready.
If China takes action, they will directly list Taiwan as a battlefield on the grounds that the US leader was attacked by China, so as to make China so that it will win over all Western allies to launch a final siege against China, just like Russia is trapped in the Ukrainian war.
However, I never expected that Pelosi had entered Taiwan incredibly all the way, and incredibly allowed Pelosi to leave Taiwan successfully. In fact, from the moment Pelosi successfully landed, the initiative in this game was in the hands of China —the Taiwan Strait has no more midline; the Taiwan Strait, as the inland sea of China, has entered the substantive implementation stage; Taiwan’s limited so-called “sovereignty”, including the 12-nautical miles of formal “territorial sea” and “airspace” will no longer exist; Taiwan will be temporarily blocked; the fact that cross-strait reunification has begun.
On the surface, Pelosi won "face", but we won "inside". Pelosi is a bait thrown by the United States. But we in turn treat Pelosi as bait and let her take the bait, because without this bait, there will be no "serious consequences" and there will be no strategic move to unify the cause later. A Pelosi exchanged the vanity of an old woman for the complete destruction of "Taiwan independence" and the 77-year operation of the United States using the Taiwan card to continuously exploit China's non-core interests. This exchange is worth it!
Not to mention the time when it was humiliated by the United States in 1996, even in the 2016 military exercise, China's warship still failed to break through the central line of the Taiwan Strait, and the United States' aircraft carrier can still show off its power in the Taiwan Strait.
This PLA military exercise means that the PLA can come and go at any time in the future! If they refuse to admit defeat, it would be even better, and they will be hit by the People's Liberation Army head-on. Moreover, the layout of the six areas of the military exercise is very particular. These include Taiwan's military bases, economic and political centers, and transportation hubs, all under the firepower range of the People's Liberation Army. What is more worthy of attention is that both China's aircraft carriers are in battle, and the USS Reagan aircraft carrier battle group has been squeezed out of the Taiwan Strait, away from the Philippine Sea hundreds of miles away from the exercise area!
We are not passively involved, but we should actively choose a unified time that is beneficial to us. This is strategic determination, this is what Chairman Mao said, you hit yours, I hit mine.
Under certain conditions, bad things can lead to good results, and good things can lead to bad results. Our actions are fully in line with the mutual conversion between the two sides of the contradiction: misfortune is the basis of good fortune, and good fortune is the basis of bad fortune.
In other words, without Pelosi's foolishness, there would be no stormy "change of the current situation in the Taiwan Strait" that everyone would see immediately.
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Do your own thing well
The reason why the United States dares to come proves that it is still the country with the strongest comprehensive strength in the world at present. Whether it is military, technology or finance, the United States still dominates. What is the basis of
currency? From a certain perspective, it can be understood that the basis of currency is a country's material production capacity. This is the case with the United States and the United States. The currency of a country is going to the world, all of them are like this.
As long as all countries in the world, including us, we also need to purchase large aircraft, computer chips, Internet technology equipment, communication technology equipment, military technology equipment, aerospace technology equipment, biotechnology equipment, medical and drug technology equipment, petrochemical product technology equipment, chemical and polymer technology equipment, high-energy physical technology equipment, energy power (including nuclear power) technology equipment, and even KFC , Hollywood , Coca-Cola... The United States will always be the United States, and the US dollar will always have value of existence.
So, the most important thing we are at present is to do our own things well, be self-reliant in science and technology, prepare for war and famine in military terms, and engage in "dual circulation" in economy, so as to crack the life gate of the United States.
In short, the position of revoking Taiwan is fundamentally contrary to the United States. In other words, the United States is simply opposed to our revocation of Taiwan. That is, if we want to take back Taiwan, we must fight against the United States. When fighting with the United States, we must have a bottom-line thinking and ask ourselves two questions: In order to take back Taiwan, do we have the courage to break off diplomatic relations with the United States? Do we have the ability to withstand the US economic lockdown? This is the core issue that tests us. The first is the issue of courage, the second is the issue of ability, and the second is more important than the first.
In history, China has never been weak when facing the country and its own life and death. Whether it is United Nations Army , Soviet revisionist, U.S. imperial , Japan, leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, and the third military power in the world, China has fought against it as long as it has it in this world. What is the result? The more China confronts, the more it develops. On the contrary, the more promises it made before 1949, the weaker it became. Japan did not dare to resist when it hit the doorstep, and was on the verge of destruction of the country and the race.
is good. The Chinese government does have commitments to countries around the world, including carbon neutrality, trade commitments, etc. However, the Chinese government and the ruling party are not only committed to governments around the world, but first of all, it is committed to the Chinese nation.
The Chinese nation has endured a century of humiliation in modern times and has been on the verge of destruction of the country and the race several times. This is by no means exaggeration.It is precisely because the Communist Party of China saved the Chinese people and the Chinese nation from danger and promised to lead the Chinese nation to prosperity and strength that the Chinese nation chose the Communist Party as its legal ruling party. This is the root of the legitimacy of our rule.
Didn’t the foreign democratic elite attack the fact that the Communist Party of China was not registered and illegal when it was first established? They don’t understand the law at all, and they don’t understand what legality is. There is no way to do this in the world. Law is formulated by people. What the people recognize is legal, and what the people support is legal.
Don't test the determination and patience of the Chinese. All tested in history have failed, including Tojo Hideki , Gangmura Yanji, MacArthur , Truman , Eisenhower, Khrushchev , Breshnev, Johnson, Nehru, Nixon... Some names here will tremble when Japanese people are asked. What's the result?
Nixon stretched his hand across the world's most vast ocean to shake hands with the Chinese. At this time, the Chinese aid team of Vietnam was still shooting down several American planes on the battlefield in one day.
Today, Tsai Ing-wen resigned as chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, just taking a small step. There are only eight words about the Taiwan issue: throw away the fantasy and prepare for the struggle.
The internal factors of things play a decisive role, and external factors play a decisive role through internal factors. The country does its own things well. We all walks of life do our own things well, and we will surely accelerate the evolution of the overall pattern of rising east and falling west and accelerate the promotion of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!
[The author of this article is New Youth 2020, the first release of New Youth 5341]
