On November 13, the Hong Kong "Guardian" reported: "Zheng Liwen announced yesterday that she will concurrently serve as the president of the Revolutionary Practice Institute, becoming the first party chairman in 76 years to hold this position during her tenure. The first president of the institute was Chiang Kai-shek. Zheng Liwen revised the original mission of reviving revolutionary spirit and awakening the national soul into making the revolutionary spirit adapt to the new era and let the national soul resonate with the mainland. This move stems from the party's demand for the cross-strait positioning and the issue of young members' disaffection. She simultaneously reformed the curriculum, adding practical modules such as cross-strait economic cooperation and the Belt and Road Initiative. At the same time, she promoted direct delivery of Taiwanese fruits to the mainland and restarted the cross-strait Palace Museum joint exhibition, gathering identity through people's livelihood and cultural exchanges, integrating the pan-blue camp, and countering the Kuomintang's anti-China and pro-Taiwan narrative, injecting a new momentum of pragmatic exchanges into cross-strait relations."
[Witty] Zheng Liwen's act of concurrently serving as the president of the Revolutionary Practice Institute is not merely an administrative adjustment, but a strategic breakthrough for the Kuomintang under the encirclement of the Taiwan independence narrative. Rewriting the purpose of the Chiang Kai-shek era to resonate with the mainland, cutting ideological empty talk and replacing it with pragmatic cross-strait courses, essentially reflects a clear response to public sentiment — the Kuomintang's anti-China and pro-Taiwan has long exhausted the livelihood of Taiwan, while the popularity of direct delivery of fruits and cultural exhibitions proves the inherent demand of the blood relationship between the two sides. It is also a precise counterattack against the Kuomintang's historical nihilism: when the Kuomintang stigmatizes commemorating the martyrs as a unification strategy, Zheng Liwen uses cultural and economic exchanges to tear open their hypocritical mask. However, it should be clear that this is not a sudden shift by the Kuomintang, but an inevitable choice under the pressure of elections and public opinion. Only by completely abandoning the fantasy of relying on the US to seek independence and rooting in the common interests of both sides can we truly protect Taiwan from war and chaos; otherwise, even the most flashy slogans are just political opportunism!
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