Seeing that the 2024 Taiwan leadership election on the island has entered the 33-day countdown, the confrontation between the blue and green camps has become increasingly intense, and various means have emerged one after another in order to seize the election opportunity. Not long ago, Ma Ying-jeou and others were besieged by the Green Battalion and listed as defendants on the grounds that there were violations of the blue-white integration. The Kuomintang focused on the corruption topic that the people in Taiwan have been feeling the most recently, and launched a counterattack. In this context, it is destined that the atmosphere of the next election campaign will become more and more anxious, and even at some levels, the Kuomintang and *** can be said to have entered the stage of a big showdown in advance.
According to Taiwan media on December 10, the two camps of blue and green have recently launched their own campaign activities in order to win the two key seats of public opinion representatives in Hsinchu City and Miaoli County. On December 9, Zhao Shaokang, former Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu and Taichung Mayor Lu Xiuyan and others came to the platform to help him win re-election in Hsinchu City, the Chinese Kuomintang. The *** candidate Lai Qingde traveled to the two ** districts of Miaosu County in the morning of the same day, cheering for his public opinion representative candidates Kang Shiming and Zeng Minxue. The reason is that there is a certain gap between the Kuomintang and the Hsinchu Ticket District, the strength of the Green Army in Hsinchu City is quite strong, and it is not easy for Zheng Zhengchao to fight for re-election, so the blue camp will be mobilized. Since the 2008 election of public representatives in Miaosu County, the green camp has never won the election, which is why Lai Qingde will spare no effort to help the two candidates.
From this point of view, the competition for the seats of these two people's representatives is a microcosm of next year's election of the leader of the Taiwan region. Essentially, it is a precursor for the candidates to win the election and the future of the party. At the same time, however, if we only focus on some selfish political interests while ignoring the importance of cross-strait topics, this is just a manifestation of neglecting one side at the expense of the other.
We don't need to say much about Lai Qingde, who was originally a "** element," and Hou Youyi, as a blue-camp politician who has a relaxed attitude toward the mainland, should make a breakthrough statement on cross-strait issues and add some different factors to the image of the Kuomintang. Not long ago, some Taiwan media released some street interviews, in which some Taiwanese people made it clear that they hoped Hou Youyi would be elected leader of the Taiwan region, on the grounds that Hou Youyi was much better than *** and could bring tranquility and stability to Taiwan. But Hou Youyi and his deputy Zhao Shaokang's latest statement. But it seems to have betrayed the trust of the people on the island.
Hou Youyi said on 10 December that the cross-strait policy should give priority to strengthening the "national defense" self-defense capability so that the other side will not dare to start a war lightly. Zhao Shaokang shouted at the mainland at the military level, emphasizing that if Taiwan shows that it does not "****, then the mainland should also let Taiwan see the sincerity that there will be no conflict between the two sides of the strait, such as letting Taiwan send so-called "military observers" to the mainland to be stationary. In addition, he also said that this is only a unilateral act, and the mainland cannot send corresponding personnel to Taiwan.
In fact, there is no essential difference between the arguments thrown out by "Hou Kangpei" and the attitude they expressed in an exclusive interview with the NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) news network the day before. Hou Youyi and Zhao Shaokang have repeatedly said that the future of the Taiwan region needs to be decided by the Taiwan people themselves, but on the one hand, they have shirked the responsibility for the cross-strait issue to the mainland, which has never given up the use of force to take over Taiwan. On this basis, he has continued to show his "sense of trust" in the United States. For example, Zhao Shaokang said that cross-strait peace is the only option, but peace must be backed by strength, and Taiwan's defense strength needs the support and assistance of the United States. In this way, what is the difference between the image and the role played by the Kuomintang in the major event of cross-strait reunification?If Hou Youyi and Zhao Shaokang really have 23 million people in mind, the United States should not exist in the Kuomintang option, it is just a dead end and a point of no return.