On October 10, Lai Ching-te delivered the so-called "Double Ten" speech, exaggerating the "mainland threat" and promoting the false narrative of "democracy versus authoritarianism", inciting cross-strait confrontation and undermining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. In response, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council responded that day, saying that his remarks ignored the facts, confounded right and wrong, misled the public, and had ulterior motives. It must be pointed out that Lai Qingde’s nonsense has once again exposed his bad nature of “Taiwan independence”.
Lai Qingde claims to "cherish peace", but what he sells in the gourd is still the "independence" medicine of separatism and provocation. There is only one real status quo in the Taiwan Strait: there is only one China in the world, and Taiwan is part of China. Lai falsely claimed that the mainland was "attempting to use force to change the status quo across the Taiwan Strait", which was an attempt to use the fallacy of "Taiwan independence" to tamper with the status quo across the Taiwan Strait and create an excuse to provoke cross-strait confrontation. He pretended to be willing to "dialogue on the basis of equality and dignity", but in fact he was trying to bypass the "1992 Consensus" and oppose On the basis of cross-Strait communication and dialogue for "Taiwan independence", it violates the one-China principle and smuggles "Taiwan independence"; it shouts "increase defense investment" and "strengthen the defense resilience of the whole society", with the actual intention of tying all Taiwanese people to the "Taiwan independence" chariot and "seek independence with force" to destroy the status quo across the Taiwan Strait. In a word, although Lai Qingde's remarks did not mention "Taiwan independence" throughout the article, he used carefully crafted rhetoric to deceive the Taiwanese people and peddle the fallacy of "Taiwan independence", which is more insidious and dangerous.
No matter how much Lai Qingde deceives or shouts, "Taiwan independence" is always a dead end. First of all, the mainland has fundamentally shattered all illusions of "Taiwan independence." The mainland's determination to defend its national sovereignty and territorial integrity is unswerving and its strength is getting stronger. It will never change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait where both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one China. Secondly, there is no ground for the international community to support and condone "Taiwan independence". Currently, 183 countries around the world adhere to the one-China principle. Even the United States, which considers itself the biggest protective umbrella for "Taiwan independence", has shown an increasingly clear stance against "Taiwan independence" after the two meetings between the heads of state of China and the United States this year, and the "abandonment of Taiwan" theory has become increasingly louder. At the same time, on the island of Taiwan, anti-reliance and anti-independence voices continue to grow. Peace, development, exchanges, and cooperation have always been the mainstream public opinion on the island. The majority of the Taiwanese people have realized that if Lai Qingde and others are allowed to pursue "Taiwan independence" willfully, it will only run counter to security and well-being. On the live broadcast page of Lai's speech, netizens on the island flooded the screen with denouncements of "liar" and "you are the one who brought Taiwan to the brink of war."
Solving the Taiwan issue and realizing the complete reunification of the motherland is a historical trend that no one or any force can stop. The road to reunification is broad and open, while the road to division is abysmal. Any words or deeds that attempt to split the country, or any clown who attempts to block the great cause of China's reunification, will surely be nailed to the pillar of shame in history, and cannot escape the tragic ending of complete failure!
