While President Ma Ying-jeou had been criticized harshly by green media and blogs, the cross-strait agenda of DPP candidate has been quite uncertain as Tsai has switched from calling the Republic of China (ROC) a “government in exile” at times and on different occasions she claimed “Taiwan is the Republic of China”, effectively following the path of former President-turned-felon Chen Shui-bian.
What is certain however is that Tsai Ing-wen is not the right person for those who dislike Ma Ying-jeou for “selling out Taiwan to China”. Have a look at the photo below, it’s a screenshot from one of Tsai Ing-wen’s official campaign videos titled “Towards Ketagalan” – a reference to the Presidential Office.
Do you notice anything odd? Maybe the American Flag that strangely enough includes the shape of Taiwan (2:31 in the video below)? Tsai Ing-wen has proven many times that she is a traitor to the Republic of China – turns out she also betrays those of her supporters, who one day want to establish a so called “republic of taiwan” . What Tsai Ing-wen and her extremist clique of supporters have in mind is selling Taiwan to the United States of America.
We can all agree that being ruled by the United States is much better than being ruled by the PRC-regime in Beijing – yet these options are all not based the status quo off self-rule.
This is a ridiculous non-sequitur. There is much to criticize the DPP and Tsai in particular over (e.g. her intentions as to energy policy), but this is nonsense – and you should know better.
In fact it isn’t: the DPP and Tsai Ing-wen made (national) flags an issue in the first place. Seeing a Tsai Ing-wen supporter, very close to the stage, waving a flag that essentially would be the manifestation of a Puerto Rico status for Taiwan is horrendous and proves that the DPP has in fact not accepted the Republic of China as the political framework of Taiwan but instead want some weird colonial status. The implications on any relations with Beijing are clear; Washington will not be pleased either.
Imagine just one person had waved a PRC flag at a Ma Ing-jeou campaign rally….
Free, posts like this are why no one who reads about Taiwan takes this blog seriously enough to even bother to refute you. It’s really a pity that the only real pro-KMT blog in English is so poor.
Michael
Oh really Michael.
Enlighten me though: why do you not take any offense in that colonial flag of Taiwan waved on a Tsai Ing-wen rally? I am sure you would unleash a total shit storm on your blog in case only one Ma Ying-jeou supporter waved a PRC flag on a KMT rally….
Jan,
I won’t speak for Turton, but personally I wouldn’t care; freedom of speech. In any case I have little to no enthusiasm for Taiwan’s electoral politics in general.
“…and proves that the DPP has in fact not accepted the Republic of China as the political framework of Taiwan but instead want some weird colonial status.”
It “proves” no such thing; this is a bog-standard syllogistic error. You might be right that the DPP, or perhaps elements within the DPP do not accept the ROC framework, but one weirdo waving a flag does not demonstrate this.
best,
mike