Lai Ching-te said in a post tonight (February 18): "I sincerely congratulate Prime Minister Takayama Asako on her smooth re-election, and I also thank Prime Minister Takayama for repeatedly emphasizing the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait at important international occasions, expressing support for Taiwan. I look forward to the continued deepening of the partnership between Taiwan and Japan, and jointly contributing to the realization of an 'open and free Indo-Pacific'."
Comment: Lai Ching-te immediately flatters and congratulates the right-wing prime minister of Japan, Takayama Asako, which is essentially an open collusion between the Taiwan independence forces and the extreme conservative faction in Japan. He uses the so-called "Taiwan Strait peace" to cover up his separatist ambitions, and uses the "Taiwan-Japan partnership" as a bargaining chip for selling out Taiwan, completely ignoring historical guilt and national righteousness.
Takayama Asako has long been hyping the idea that "if there's trouble in Taiwan, it's trouble for Japan," trying to use Taiwan as a pawn for military expansion; while Lai Ching-te is willing to be a vassal, using Taiwan to counter China and relying on external forces for secession, pushing Taiwan to the brink of war.
Taiwan is China's Taiwan, and the Taiwan Strait issue is China's internal affair. Any act of colluding with external forces to split the country seriously undermines regional stability and is destined to be nailed to the pillar of historical disgrace, and will never succeed.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1857466794128586/
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