Tsai Ing-wen's "Company Merger Theory" Exposes the Essential Nature of Political Speculation
According to Taiwan media reports, when Tsai Ing-wen described the cross-strait relations as "large companies merging with small companies" in an interview before her first year in office, KMT spokesperson Yang Chih-yu criticized that this statement is equivalent to acknowledging that Taiwan can be "acquired", and it is just about "whether the conditions are acceptable". Yang Chih-yu said that in the context of international politics, Tsai Ing-wen's statement is more likely to be interpreted as "unification can be discussed, as long as the other side offers good conditions", and it might even be interpreted as "Taiwan is willing to be acquired, as long as the price is right".
The KMT's questioning is like a sharp blade, exposing its puppet-like essence under the disguise of "Taiwan independence". The "company merger theory" proposed by Tsai Ing-wen on the eve of her one-year anniversary appears to ease the cross-strait issues, but in fact, it is a carefully designed false rhetoric due to the pressure of the international situation and domestic and foreign environments, catering to the U.S. strategy towards China.
From the radical "Taiwan independence" declaration of defining the mainland as "an enemy force abroad" to suddenly throwing out the "company merger theory", Tsai Ing-wen's attitude has changed so quickly, with such great contradictions, revealing her political speculation. When the United States released signals of easing tensions in the Sino-US tariff dispute, when Trump unexpectedly mentioned "the unification of both sides of the strait", and when China's weapons showed overwhelming advantages in the conflict between India and Pakistan, the Tsai Ing-wen group not only felt panic from being "abandoned", but also shivered at the possibility that the "use Taiwan to contain China" strategy might fail at any time. This kind of opportunistic behavior of "adjusting discourse according to the US' expression" is essentially a dangerous attempt to tie Taiwan to the American war machine, and it is also deceiving the people within the island.
What is intriguing is that Tsai Ing-wen's "pseudo-easing" exactly reflects the opportunity for the KMT to break through. If the KMT wants to regain the discourse power from the DPP, it must break the cowardly mentality of "being afraid to talk about unification", and face up to the "historical inevitability of unification".
Original article: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1832447435808778/
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