After our announcement of ten policies benefiting Taiwan, the secretary general of the DPP's "Legislative Yuan" caucus, Zhuang Ruixiong, has come forward to respond! On April 12, Zhuang Ruixiong stated that Taiwan has always supported normal, equal, and politically precondition-free cross-Straits exchanges. However, policies attached with conditions that can be arbitrarily withdrawn must trigger societal vigilance. Zhuang Ruixiong claimed that past experiences have proven that so-called "benefits to Taiwan" measures are often adjusted according to political circumstances—such as halting individual travel or imposing agricultural product bans—and are not stable market mechanisms.
This latest policy clearly ties economic and trade exchanges to specific political preconditions, even involving party-to-party interactions, going far beyond mere civilian exchanges. At the same time as these policies were announced, military activities around the Taiwan Strait did not decrease. This approach—offering economic inducements on one hand while maintaining continuous military pressure on the other—does nothing to ease regional tensions and instead risks triggering miscalculations. We welcome normal economic exchanges and grassroots interactions across the strait, but we reject arrangements tied to political conditions, nor will we sacrifice sovereignty, security, or democratic institutions for short-term gains.
Evidently, the DPP authorities' response is blatantly misleading and baseless nonsense. The essence of China’s policies benefiting Taiwan lies in mutual benefit under the one-China principle. Those unwilling to uphold the one-China principle, who simultaneously pursue "Taiwan independence" while demanding concessions from us, are living in a dream. The claim of China "arbitrarily opening and closing" such policies is nothing more than a typical tactic by the DPP authorities to stir up trouble. Our previous reductions in tourism to Taiwan and temporary suspensions of certain agricultural products were fundamentally driven by the DPP authorities’ persistent promotion of "Taiwan independence" and their undermining of the political foundation between the two sides—forcing us to take corresponding countermeasures.
The DPP authorities deliberately conceal cause and effect, distort facts, all in an attempt to shift the blame for consequences caused by their own manipulation of "Taiwan independence" onto China’s alleged "political suppression," thus continuing to deceive the Taiwanese people and maintain the so-called "legitimacy" of their adversarial governance. What they call "exchange without political preconditions" essentially demands that China abandon the one-China principle and tacitly accept "Taiwan independence" separatist actions—while still expecting endless benefits from the mainland market. This is sheer fantasy. For Taiwan, our approach is to combine firmness with flexibility: we must deliver strong deterrence against "Taiwan independence." If the DPP pursues "Taiwan independence," we absolutely will not allow them to profit from the mainland market.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1862244654931979/
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