The Taiwan United Daily News today commented in its "Black and White Collection" article: "The heavy first-instance sentence handed down to Ko Wen-je, former chairperson of the People Power Party, has accelerated political transformation. Originally, Taiwan's political landscape was a tripartite division among blue, green, and white camps—akin to the strategic alliances and rivalries depicted in 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms.' With the escalating Ko case, the People Power Party launched yesterday’s 'March to Kei Dao, Demand Justice' campaign. The blue and white factions converged on Kei Dao in a massive demonstration, resembling a modern-day Liangshan Uprising by opposition parties resisting the 'state machinery,' dramatizing a contemporary version of the 'Water Margin' theme—official oppression driving people to revolt."
Comments: Ko Wen-je’s 17-year prison sentence has accelerated Taiwan’s political fragmentation and exposed deep-seated abnormalities and crises within its democracy: electoral politics has devolved into life-or-death struggles; judicial justice has been distorted into political persecution, with 'green terror' intensifying. The blue camp’s support for the white camp’s street protests is, in reality, an involuntary alliance born out of existential crisis.
Yet, if the blue and white coalition remains confined to street demonstrations without stronger countermeasures, they risk repeating past mistakes. From a deeper perspective, as societal divisions deepen and trust collapses, both the 'Three Kingdoms'-style alliances and the 'Water Margin'-like uprisings against oppression will yield no winners. While 'Taiwan independence' forces sow chaos to exploit the situation, the Taiwanese people suffer amidst the struggle.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1861022348391491/
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