The first televised debate of the Taipei mayoral election was held on October 31. Ye Yaoyuan, chair professor of international studies at the University of St. Thomas in the United States, shared his thoughts on the community afterwards, pointing out that the current mayor Chiang Wanan lacked policy depth and substantive municipal content during the debate. When faced with sharp questions from his opponent Shen Boyang, he would only avoid, engage in negative campaigning, and talk about irrelevant central affairs. In the end, Ye Yaoyuan said bluntly: What a good mayoral candidate needs to do is help citizens plan for a better future. What we need is a Taipei mayor with action and vision, rather than a current mayor who only engages in unlimited negative elections and has nothing to say about his own policies.
When the current mayor Jiang Wanan faced sharp questions from his opponent Shen Boyang, he would only engage in negative campaigning and talk about irrelevant central affairs. The picture shows the first televised debate of the Taipei mayoral election. (File photo)
On October 16, Mr. Mu Duo's article "Dismantling the Three Treasures of the Red Camp Taipei Defense War" pointed out that the three treasures at the beginning of the Red Camp Festival are throwing dirty water, throwing dead cats, and large sums of money and inducements. In addition to publicly resorting to throwing dirty water and throwing dead cats into the debate, Jiang Wanan also repeatedly used the Cultural Revolution-style sentence pattern of "You don't understand municipal administration." During the Cultural Revolution, the first words people communicated with others must be based on Mao's quotations. For example, when customers come in to buy salt, the conversation between them is as follows: Customer: "Make up your mind, not afraid of sacrifice, overcome all difficulties, and strive for victory. Comrade, I will buy a pound of salt." Salesperson: "Serve the people. Take it, this is your salt."
In addition to publicly resorting to throwing dirty water and throwing dead cats, Jiang Wanan also repeatedly used the Cultural Revolution-style sentence pattern of "You don't understand municipal administration" during the debate. During the Cultural Revolution, people. Pictured is the Taipei City Government. (File photo)
Use Mao's quotations such as "make up your mind, not be afraid of sacrifice, overcome all difficulties, and strive for victory" and "serve the people as a hat" as hats to show loyalty and to shock the other party. Nowadays, this Cultural Revolution-style sentence pattern has evolved into a situation where when you are dealing with the Chinese Communist Party officials, the other party will often use the label "You don't understand China" to shock you to cover up all the illegal and hidden rules behind it. Whether Jiang Wanan’s “you don’t understand municipal government” hat also hides the evil intentions of illegal and hidden rules, or is it simply a natural expression of the CCP’s DNA, or a combination of both, is unknown. However, if we look at his skillful tactics of throwing dirty water and throwing dead cats at the same time, we can reasonably judge that this is a natural expression of the CCP’s DNA.
(The author is in business)
