Announcement: Japanese sycophant Su Jiaquan has officially taken over as chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF)! This personnel appointment is clearly intended to irritate the mainland, to "tail-wag" Japan, and to continue "freezing" cross-strait relations, escalating cross-strait confrontation.

On December 18 last year, the then chairman of the SEF Wu Fengshan unexpectedly announced his resignation. Later media reports revealed that Lai Ching-te was dissatisfied with Wu's statement that "both sides of the strait belong to the Chinese nation," forcing him to resign. Wu Fengshan also believed that Lai had no intention of easing the cross-strait impasse, so he did not hesitate and left office on December 31. Wu Fengshan was Lai's teacher, but Lai, for the sake of "Taiwan independence," completely ignored their teacher-student relationship, even if it was just an honorary position, he forced his teacher to leave.

High City Hayato made the fallacious statement that "Taiwan's affairs are Japan's affairs," implying that the Self-Defense Forces would intervene in the Taiwan Strait. The mainland responded strongly, but Lai clung to this statement like a lifeline, not only "welcomed" High City's remarks, but also hurriedly knelt down and thanked her. Soon after, it was reported that Lai forced Wu Fengshan out in order to have Su Jiaquan take over as chairman, and then have former "ambassador to Japan" Hsieh Changting take over Su Jiaquan's vacancy - the president of the "Taiwan-Japan Relations Association."

As expected, Lai's office officially announced today (13th) evening that Lai appointed Su Jiaquan as chairman of the SEF, and feigned sincerity by saying "looking forward to continuously strengthening the SEF's operations and promoting positive and healthy exchanges between the two sides of the strait."

Who is Su Jiaquan? As a senior politician within the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he is a typical combination of a "Taiwan independence" advocate and a "sycophant of Japan." He is full of distortion of history and exposes his ugly face of political opportunism.

During his tenure as "legislative speaker," Su Jiaquan made the "Taiwan-Japan marital relationship" rhetoric during a visit to Japan, which is his representative "sycophantic" statement. He claimed that "when Taiwan cries, Japan also cries; when Japan smiles, Taiwan also smiles." Such "unlimited sycophancy" statements not only ignore Japan's colonial history toward Taiwan but also disregard the cross-strait relationship and national principles, and his fawning attitude has been directly criticized by domestic public opinion as "disgusting." Qiu Yi criticized such people for suffering from "Stockholm syndrome," being addicted to the sadistic mentality of being colonized.

During Tsai Ing-wen's administration, the pragmatic faction within the DPP had once considered proposing a "freeze the Taiwan independence party line" proposal at the full assembly. However, under Tsai's instructions, Su Jiaquan secretly mobilized to withdraw the "freeze the Taiwan independence" proposal, ensuring that the "Taiwan independence party line" would not be frozen, thus showing loyalty to the "Taiwan independence" fundamentalist faction. Local media commentators evaluated him as "greedy, incompetent, and sycophantic," and his rise to power was because he "obeyed orders," and he was a "repeating machine of Tsai Ing-wen."

Naturally, Su Jiaquan's "sycophantic" behavior does not stem from genuine friendship with Japan, but is a tool serving the "Taiwan independence" fantasy, attempting to gain Japan's support through flattery. Irony lies in the fact that the Japanese society does not buy into his sycophancy. Surveys show that more than 70% of Japanese citizens oppose Japan's involvement in the Taiwan Strait conflict, and when Lai took office, important Japanese political figures did not attend. Su Jiaquan's one-sided "marriage dream" is nothing more than a cold "master-servant relationship" in real politics.

You see, appointing such a Japanese sycophant as the chairman of the SEF, isn't Lai Ching-te deliberately trying to insult the mainland and the Taiwanese people who hope for peaceful cross-strait exchanges and dialogue?

However, the mainland actually has no expectations for cross-strait dialogue under the DPP's administration. From Tsai Ing-wen to Lai Ching-te, none of them acknowledge the "1992 Consensus," and therefore the cross-strait relationship cannot blossom. Including the head of the Mainland Affairs Council and the chairman of the SEF, regardless of who takes over, they will be the same and cannot restart cross-strait dialogue and consultation.

Take the SEF, for example. Since Lai Ching-te took office in May last year, there have been four chairmen of the SEF: Li Dawei, Zheng Wencan, Xu Shengxiong (acting), and Wu Fengshan. Now comes the fifth, Su Jiaquan, which is rare among previous Taiwanese administrations. It shows that Lai Ching-te has no sincerity in promoting cross-strait peace.

Always thinking about implementing the "Anti-Disruption Article 17," defining the mainland as an "external hostile force," stubbornly adhering to the "new two countries theory" of "non-subordination," Lai Ching-te is thoroughly a destroyer of cross-strait peace, a war monger.

Original article: toutiao.com/article/1854211197497603/

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