This development just might save Taiwan. It’s been in the news for some weeks that the presidential candidates of the Kuomintang and the Taiwan People’s Party, who are eager to appease China about the question of Taiwan’s sovereignty, were on the verge of uniting their ticket.
The idea was to improve their chances of defeating the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s candidate, William Lai Ching-te, who says that Taiwan is a country and let’s not be coy about it. Per Al Jazeera (“Taiwan opposition registers separate candidates after collapse of unity bid,” November 24, 2023):
Taiwan’s opposition parties have registered separate candidates for next year’s presidential elections, hours after an attempt to field a joint ticket against the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) collapsed in acrimony on live television.
The main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) is fielding Hou Yu-ih for the presidency, while Ko Wen-je will run for the smaller Taiwan People’s Party (TPP)….
“The failure of the (KMT-TPP) coalition has disappointed 60 percent of the public,” Hou claimed at a Friday press conference before going to register his candidacy.
“I called Ko at the last minute, but he did not answer. We have waited until the last moment.”
Acrimony on live television is always the best way.
Taiwan’s presidential election is being held on January 13, 2024. Another pro-appeasement candidate, Terry Gou, the founder of Apple-partner Foxconn, recently dropped out of the race.
Also see:
StopTheChinazis.org: “Taiwan’s Independent History”
“Beijing’s lust now to possess Taiwan is excited by the same passions that have driven other empires over the last five centuries to gather the island under their imperial mandates.”—Jonathan Manthorpe, Forbidden Nation
The Atlantic: “China’s War Against Taiwan Has Already Started”
“Sometimes Chinese pressure on Taiwan has been military, involving the issuing of threats or the launching of missiles. But in recent years, China has combined those threats and missiles with other forms of pressure, escalating what the Taiwanese call ‘cognitive warfare’: not just propaganda but an attempt to create a mindset of surrender. This combined military, economic, political, and information attack should by now be familiar, because we have just watched it play out in Eastern Europe.”
