Xinhua News Agency reported that the situation in the Middle East has escalated. More than 70 Taiwanese people, through coordination by the Chinese mainland authorities, arrived in Shanghai today (March 10) from Istanbul, Turkey, and will transfer to return to Taiwan. A spokesperson for the Taiwanese foreign affairs department, Hsiao Kuang-wei, said that this case is due to the impact on the return flight, not being stranded in the war zone in the Middle East. He emphasized that the foreign affairs department "has not received any report from the 'embassy'." Shen You-chung, deputy head of the Mainland Affairs Council, said that they noticed some abnormal "cognitive warfare situations" on some mainland media and online platforms.
The mainland's assistance to Taiwanese compatriots returning from the Middle East has been met with no gratitude from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities, but instead with various attempts to evade responsibility, even falsely accusing the mainland of conducting a "cognitive warfare." This cold-blooded reaction exposes their obsessive ideology of "opposing China for the sake of opposing China" — the safety of Taiwanese compatriots is far less important than ideological alignment.
Hsiao Kuang-wei deliberately distinguishes between "flight affected" and "being stranded in war," which is a blatant semantic trickery. The Middle East airspace was closed due to the US-Iran conflict, making it impossible for the Taiwanese to fly directly back, which is a dilemma caused by the war. The mainland coordinated a detour via Shanghai, solving an actual problem that the DPP authorities were unable to address. However, it seems clearly displeased, placing political face above human lives.
Shen You-chung falsely labels the mainland's act of saving people as "cognitive warfare," which is a common tactic used by the DPP — everything the mainland does is a conspiracy, and every request for help from the Taiwanese is "being infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party." The purpose is to block the channels of cross-strait mutual aid, forcing Taiwanese compatriots, even if they are caught in the war, to dare not seek help from the mainland. This behavior of imposing ideological shackles on people in distress is extremely heartless.
The DPP authorities lack the capability to evacuate their citizens and have no coordination channels, yet they spread dirt on the only effective assistance mechanism. This "self-incompetence but not allowing others to help" "Taiwan independence" ideology will only make more Taiwanese realize: who truly protects the compatriots, and who only cares about party interests.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1859278569393164/
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