Expert: Lai Ching-te’s “Double Ten” speech revealed that his separatist nature of “Taiwan independence” remains unchanged and its toxicity remains unchanged

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 11. Title: Expert: Lai Qingde’s “Double Ten” speech revealed that his separatist nature of “Taiwan independence” remains unchanged and his toxicity remains unchanged

Xinhua News Agency reporters Xu Xiaojing and Shang Hao

Many experts on Taiwan issues analyzed and pointed out that the so-called "Double Ten" speech delivered by Lai Ching-te in Taipei on the 10th was full of deception and harm. In his speech, he confused right and wrong, exaggerated the "mainland threat", and tried his best to rely on external forces. The separatist nature of "Taiwan independence" of "seeking independence by force" and "relying on foreign countries for independence" remains unchanged and its toxicity remains unchanged.

Chen Guiqing, director of the Foreign Relations Research Office of the Taiwan Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that in his speech, Lai Qingde hypocritically claimed to "cherish peace" and "willing to communicate", but in fact he frequently attacked and smeared the mainland, falsely claiming that the mainland "used military and gray zone operations to exert pressure" and "attempted to change the status quo across the Taiwan Strait", which fully exposed his stubborn "Taiwan independence" separatist thinking and his sinister intentions of inciting cross-strait confrontation. Facts have repeatedly proven that Lai Ching-te and the Democratic Progressive Party are the root cause of undermining the stability of cross-Strait relations and Taiwan's social tranquility, and are the source of chaos for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. Shifting the responsibility for undermining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait to the mainland has ulterior motives.

"Since Lai Ching-te came to power, he has continued to advocate the false narrative of 'democracy versus authoritarianism,' and this speech repeated the same old tune." Zhu Guilan, assistant professor at the Institute of Taiwan Studies at Tsinghua University, analyzed that Lai Ching-te used the guise of "democracy" and "freedom" to package Taiwan as the frontier of "fighting authoritarianism," calling deer a horse, confusing right and wrong, intensifying the promotion of "internationalization of the Taiwan issue," and his attempt to "rely on foreign countries to seek independence."

Liu Xiangping, director of the Institute of Taiwan Studies at Nanjing University, believes that in his speech, Lai Qingde incited "strengthening asymmetric combat power" and "developing independent defense industries" and hyping "the defense resilience of the whole society" to find excuses to increase the island's defense budget and rationalize preparations for tying the Taiwanese people to the "Taiwan independence" chariot. Those who buck the trend for the selfish interests of one party, wantonly squander Taiwan's people's wealth and support, and engage in military warfare, which greatly harms the livelihood and well-being of the people on the island. They will eventually be cast aside by public opinion and will inevitably end in defeat.

Experts also pointed out that Lai Ching-te’s speech, titled “City on a Hill,” was a deliberate attempt to introduce Western political and religious concepts into Taiwan-related narratives. Liu Xiangping said that Lai Qingde deliberately manipulated "de-Sinicization", tried his best to move closer to Western values, and tried to please the United States and the West with rhetorical methods that adhered to Western ideologies. His ugly appearance of being a pawn of external forces was exposed.

In response to Lai Qingde's declaration that "the history of World War II will never be allowed to be distorted," Wang Yingjin, director of the Cross-Strait Relations Research Center at Renmin University of China, said that a series of international legal documents, including the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, have unequivocally confirmed China's sovereignty over Taiwan. The replacement of the Government of the Republic of China by the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China is a regime change without any change in China, the subject of international law, and does not change Taiwan's status as part of China's territory. Lai Qingde deliberately changed the concept and denied this historical and legal fact, which is precisely distorting the history of World War II.

He pointed out that on the 80th anniversary of Taiwan's liberation, Lai Qingde openly fell in love with colonial Japan, took the position of the Japanese aggressors, and misrepresented the victory of the Anti-Japanese War as the so-called "final war." Such people who have forgotten their ancestors and talk about "correct understanding of history" are completely confusing right and wrong.

In his speech, Lai Qingde avoided talking about the problems and risks facing Taiwan's economic and social development, but he advocated the results of economic development at length and announced the "spreading money" measure. Chen Guiqing pointed out that anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is to gain benefits for the Democratic Progressive Party in the upcoming "nine-in-one" election on the island, and is full of selfish political calculations.

Regarding this so-called "Double Ten" speech made by a "pragmatic Taiwan independence worker", the interviewed experts said that Taiwan's future can only and must be jointly decided by all Chinese people, including Taiwan compatriots. No matter what Lai Qingde says or does, it cannot change the historical and legal fact that Taiwan is part of China's territory, nor can it stop the historical trend that the motherland will eventually be reunified and will be reunified. We hope that our compatriots in Taiwan will stand on the right side of history, resolutely oppose "Taiwan independence" with practical actions, firmly safeguard peace across the Taiwan Strait, and promote the reunification of the motherland. (over)