The CCP’s infiltration of Taiwan’s united front is becoming increasingly serious. Dong Liwen, CEO of the Asia-Pacific Peace Research Foundation, bluntly stated today (9th) that “the Kuomintang has long been completely interspersed and divided by the CCP.” From the KMT chairman and vice-chairman, to the heads of counties and cities in Lanying, down to the district chiefs, neighborhood chiefs, etc. He also pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party’s united front infiltration into Taiwan has changed from the early white-faced one to the black-faced one, that is, “gray law enforcement and cross-border suppression.” However, there are serious problems with Taiwan’s laws, and the accountability of the Chinese Communist Party’s local collaborators is too light.
The Ku Kuan Min Foundation held the "Ku Kuan Min Centenary Birth Commemoration Forum - The Revolutionary Era and Contemporary Mission of the Resistors" today, which included Taiwanese think tank advisory committee members Lai Yizhong and Dong Liwen, Chairman of the Black Bear Civil Defense Education Association Liu Wen, and former Fair Association member Hong Cailong.
"The Kuomintang has been completely divided by the old Communist Party from beginning to end. The party chairman cannot command the Kuomintang at all." Dong Liwen pointed out that the Kuomintang chairman and the Communist Party chairman have communication channels, and there are corresponding counterparts among the vice-chairmen. The CCP even personally supports the Kuomintang Central Standing Committee, extending its hands all the way down to the legislators, county and city chiefs, district chiefs, neighborhood chiefs, etc. For example, he gave an example. In 2016, the heads of eight counties and cities in Lanying went to China for exchanges. At that time, the chairman of the Kuomintang had no control at all because various departments of the Kuomintang had units to connect with the CCP.
Dong Liwen mentioned that after the Ma-Xi meeting, cross-strait youth exchanges and cooperation were promoted. Many Chinese college students came to Taiwan to visit. In the face of doubts from the outside world, the Kuomintang people said that "youth exchanges are not the united front of the CCP." However, all organizational units in China have been assigned the task of united front. The CCP has held a "Peking University United Front Work Conference" on youth, and the infiltration of palaces and temples is a major problem. All temple abbots and church priests in China are party cadres, but Taiwanese palace and temple cadres mistakenly believe that this is a purely religious exchange.
In response to China's gray law enforcement and transnational suppression of Taiwan, Dong Liwen said that during the Ma government, China's United Front infiltration was still superficial, such as treating guests to dinner, shopping, etc., but in recent years, United Front infiltration has transformed into a "dressing up" model, that is, It is the so-called "transnational repression", including Lai Ching-tak's son being followed in the United States, pinholes being drilled near Shen Boyang's home, feces being thrown at the North City Comedy Club, media personality Akio Yaita being attacked, and even the Causeway Bay Bookstore in Taiwan being splashed with paint in 2020.
Dong Liwen also said that many Taiwanese people traveling to China have been interrogated and detained. He highly doubts that the Chinese Communist Party has established a database of all Taiwanese people. The first thing they do when intercepting Taiwanese people is to check their ID number to confirm whether it is the same as the information they have. Therefore, the two concepts of "unification without unification, and rule before rule" are often proposed recently. Although there is no unification, it tells you that it has been substantively unified and is already governing you.
Dong Liwen bluntly said that there are problems with Taiwan's judicial system, and the laws against cross-border repression are even more problematic. For example, in 2019, Hong Kong female singer Denise Denise was thrown paint by Hu Zhiwei, a member of the Unification Party. Hu was only sentenced to three months in prison, but he could be fined; in the case of feces being thrown at a comedy club, although the prosecutor had recommended 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.
