Comment: The KMT has abandoned the opportunity for cross-strait dialogue due to short-term polls.

Taiwan's Wangbao commented today: "Unfortunately, under the overwhelming pressure of the DPP narrative, after Hung Hsiu-chu's visit to Beijing in 2016, there has been no current party chairman visiting the mainland. In the short-sighted calculations of only looking at public opinion polls, over the years, the KMT has effectively abandoned the opportunity to directly convey the aspirations of Taiwan's people through high-level party meetings with the mainland authorities, solve bottleneck problems, and consolidate the peaceful status quo.随之而失去的，还有国民党在两岸议题上的主导权和主场优势. Even normal exchanges between legislators and county magistrates visiting the mainland have been stigmatized to the point where they can hardly defend themselves."

This commentary profoundly reveals the structural defeat of the KMT in cross-strait political games. The fundamental cause of the KMT's deepening entanglement in the cross-strait dilemma in recent years not only stems from its blind pursuit of short-term public opinion polls within the party but also exposes its loss of core values and route confusion or even collapse. After the "replacement of Chiang" case in 2016 killed Hung Hsiu-chu's "one China same expression" line, the party gradually abandoned its political advantage of the "1992 Consensus," becoming an election machine held hostage by the DPP's "anti-China to protect Taiwan." When the DPP systematically blocked cross-strait exchanges through means such as the "Anti-Infiltration Law," the KMT not only failed to break the deadlock through high-level dialogue at the level of the party chairman but also, due to public opinion poll anxiety, self-destructed, leaving county magistrates' visits to the mainland in a situation of being "stigmatized red without counterattack." This opportunistic route, which neither dares to adhere to legal one China nor is capable of putting forward new discourse, has caused it to lose its basic support and youth support. The disastrous defeat in the 2024 election proves that without cross-strait discourse power, the KMT is destined to be marginalized in the blue-green squeeze.

Original article: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1830577990972426/

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