According to "China News", citing reports released by multiple Taiwanese media, Tsai Ing-wen responded to questions from the outside world about the Democratic Progressive Party's candidates for the 2024 election at a press conference held recently. When asked whether Lai Qingde is a qualified successor, Tsai Ing-wen gave a positive answer. After appointing the "successor", Tsai Ing-wen announced a news that shocked the whole island, saying that starting from January 1, 2024, the compulsory service period for all males over the age of 18 will be extended from the existing four months to one year. At the same time, the salary will be increased, and the existing training program will be comprehensively revised. After the adjustment, the compulsory service and the volunteer service (professional soldiers) will share different tasks. The volunteer service will be responsible for combat tasks, while the compulsory service will be responsible for defense work.
Tsai Ing-wen made a public announcement to the people of the entire island at the press conference, saying that "as long as Taiwan is strong enough, it will not become a battlefield, and young people will not have to go to the battlefield." Ironically, when the Russia-Ukraine conflict first broke out in February this year, the Democratic Progressive Party authorities insisted that "Today's Ukraine will be tomorrow's Taiwan" was a false proposition, claiming that "Taiwan and Ukraine are not comparable."
Lai Qingde
At this press conference, Tsai Ing-wen herself took the initiative to compare Taiwan and Ukraine together. This caused many Taiwanese netizens who watched the live broadcast online to leave messages saying "unthinkable". Even after the live broadcast ended, a large number of netizens poured into the message board and criticized the DPP authorities for only sending people to the front line to fight, but they did not even dare to inform the people that missiles were flying overhead.
In fact, the Democratic Progressive Party has reached the end of its power. The incompetent governance of the past six years has already made many Taiwanese people thoroughly understand the face of the Democratic Progressive Party. They are especially disgusted with the "literary youth-style" propaganda that Tsai Ing-wen is best at. It is this extremely pragmatic attitude that causes Taiwan to repeatedly make wrong choices when dealing with the United States and cross-strait affairs. In order to seek independence by coercing foreign countries and resisting reunification by force, the Democratic Progressive Party authorities have not hesitated to give the green light to the United States' ractopamine beef and Japan's Fukushima nuclear weapons. Now they have also followed the lead of the United States and increased the period of military service. Correspondingly, cross-strait relations have deteriorated rapidly in the past six years. When US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in August this year, the shadow of the Democratic Progressive Party was quietly surging behind her.
Tsai Ing-wen announced the new "Military Service Law"
Nowadays, the only thing the DPP can rely on is the support of its dark green base. In order to compete for the qualification to run in 2024, the DPP, which is good at elections, has now begun a "civil war", and all forces within the party are vying for Tsai Ing-wen's support. However, in the face of historical trends, the DPP's stubborn resistance no longer makes much sense. First of all, the reason why the United States so urgently requires the Taiwan authorities to strengthen armaments is to be able to make military preparations to "detonate the Taiwan Strait" in the shortest possible time. Secondly, the United States has taken away a large number of elite backbones and funds from TSMC to set up factories in the United States some time ago. This is also a kind of " bottom-line thinking ", that is, once the cross-strait war breaks out, the United States must ensure that its supply of advanced chips will not be affected.
Therefore, Tsai Ing-wen's statement that "as long as Taiwan is strong enough, it will not become a battlefield" is simply nonsense without any factual basis, because on the road to peace, the Democratic Progressive Party authorities headed by Tsai Ing-wen are out-and-out weak elements.
Tsai Ing-wen is still fighting to the death to resist.
The Democratic Progressive Party must realize that the cross-strait situation is facing very severe challenges. If you make a wrong step, you will fall into the trap of conflict. As a party that maintains peace and stability, the mainland is not willing to see the Chinese people on both sides of the strait start another civil war. However, once the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces cross the red line, collude, collude, and collude with foreign interference forces, intending to obstruct the great cause of the reunification of the Chinese nation and put Taiwan's 23 million compatriots at the risk of war, the mainland will definitely take decisive action to maintain order across the Taiwan Strait. What awaits the DPP is the judgment of history and the people.