Scholar: The CCP’s local collaborators are too lightly held accountable

Forum commemorating the 100th anniversary of Gu Kuanmin’s birth: united front infiltration and transformation of "playing a bad face"

Thirty-four-year-old woman Zhang Wanying was recently arrested by the FBI for allegedly following Lai Tingyu, the son of President Lai Ching-te, in the United States. Dong Liwen, CEO of the Asia-Pacific Peace Research Foundation, said yesterday that the Chinese Communist Party’s united front infiltration into Taiwan has changed from the early white-face to black-face, that is, “gray law enforcement and cross-border suppression.” However, Taiwan’s laws are deeply problematic, and the accountability of the Chinese Communist Party’s local collaborators is too light.

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The Ku Kuan Min Foundation held the "Ko Kuan Min Centenary Birth Commemoration Forum" yesterday. Former Legislative Yuan You Xikun said that local history has been deliberately covered up and obliterated for a long time. The most pernicious factor is the two Chiang Kai-shek regimes' repeated inculcation of the concept that "Taiwan has belonged to China since ancient times." In fact, Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, Zhou Enlai and others have publicly expressed their support for Taiwan's independence, exposing the long-standing lies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. In order to consolidate democracy, deepen subject identity, and build a normal country, we have the responsibility to continue to clarify and restore the historical facts that belong to Taiwanese people.

Taiwan's independence and independence is only supported by the "international situation"

Former presidential counselor Ku Kuan-min was committed to promoting "Taiwan's independent nationhood" during his lifetime. Lai Zhongqiang, convener of the United Economic Democracy think tank, pointed out that according to statistics from the Election Research Center of National Chengchi University, up to 63% of the people currently consider themselves Taiwanese, and the local government also recognizes sovereignty and independence, and only lacks the support of "international situations". He warned that everyone should guard against the infiltration threat from China and not let the "national will" retreat.

Dong Liwen pointed out that during the Ma government, China's united front infiltration was still limited to treating guests to dinner, shopping, etc., but in recent years, the united front infiltration has transformed into a "blackface" model, which is the so-called "transnational suppression", including Lai Qingde's son being followed in the United States, and pinholes being installed near Shen Boyang's home.

Dong Liwen bluntly said that Taiwan's laws against cross-border repression are very problematic. For example, in 2019, Hong Kong female singer Denise Ho was thrown paint by Hu Zhiwei, a member of the United Propaganda Party. Hu was only sentenced to three months in prison, but could be fined; in the case of feces being thrown at a comedy club, although the prosecutor had proposed a harsher sentence, the two murderers were only sentenced to one year and ten months and one year and eight months respectively. He hopes that the Executive Yuan can speed up the pace of amending the law.