Xi’s puppet Lien Chan
Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) on Thursday last week proudly announced in Tiananmen Square: “Seventy years ago today, the Chinese people, having fought tenaciously for 14 years, won the great victory of their War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, marking the full victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the glory of peace shined again over the world.”
He inspected and greeted the troops after his speech. Then about 12,000 troops and 200 aircraft, as well as tanks and missiles, paraded to salute him and his guests.
Xi’s performance in his one-man show as the commander-in-chief of the military parade was successful. He demonstrated to Chinese at the scene and the world through the media that he has his grip on the military and on the party amid the predicament he faces, with shocks in the economy, stocks, currency and the grinding anti-corruption campaign. He presented both a carrot and a stick.
While he elatedly showed off his troops and weapons he said: “For peace, China will always adhere to the road of peaceful development.”
While he loudly stated that “War is a mirror, it can make people better know the value of peace,” he has deployed more missiles against Taiwan.
While he said, “Let us bear in mind the history of the revelation of the great truth: Justice prevails. Peace prevails. The people prevail,” he twisted history by crediting the Chinese Communist Party as having led the war in China against Japan. What a crock. World War II ended in 1945, way before People’s Republic of China was established in 1949.
However, Xi’s military muscle-flexing was endorsed by dignitaries such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the International Criminal Court-wanted war criminal Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who have a lot in common.
Xi’s parade also attracted 300 Taiwanese, among whom former vice president Lien Chan (連戰) was the most controversial. Lien totally ignored warnings by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫), President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), former premier Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村), leaders of the pan-green and pan-blue camps and the public. He really went too far with his trip to Beijing.
Well, it is no surprise to us; it is just the common routine of Lien and his family’s usual behavior.
In April 2002, Lien proudly introduced himself during a visit to the US by saying: “Thank God, I am a pure Chinese.”
He lost two presidential elections: 2000 and 2004. Soon after China published its “Anti-Secession” Law in March 2005, he visited China in his then role as KMT chairman.
On June 16, 2006, he was greeted with “Grandpa, you are back,” at the Xian Houzaimen Elementary School.
His father, Lien Chen-dong (連震東), spent his entire life working as a Chinese government employee.
His grandfather, Lien Heng (連橫) wrote a lengthy article in 1928 supporting the Japanese opium trade, which endangered the health of Taiwanese. Lien Heng was spurned by friends and the public alike in Taiwan.
Lien Chan’s son, Sean Lien (連勝文), is a multimillionaire who resides at The Palace complex in Taipei, but no one knows how he could have so much money. No wonder that as the KMT’s Taipei mayoral candidate, Sean Lien was defeated by independent Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) on Nov. 29 last year.
A group of Chinese pawns, New Party Chairman Yok Mu-ming (郁慕明), People First Party Secretary-General Chin Ching-sheng (秦金生) and independent Legislator May Chin (高金素梅), visited China, led by Lien Chan, who thought that he would be invited as a presidential VIP to observe the military parade. However, he ended up in the same group as the chief executives of Hong Kong and Macau.
Lien Chan is nothing but Xi’s puppet for the united front.
Lien Chan and his team sat on the reviewing stands of the Tiananmen gate, clapped hands and accepted their status. Lien said he just enjoyed watching the show, like watching a sports match. What a joke.
Lien Chan spent Taiwanese taxpayers’ money to endorse the People’s Liberation Army, which wants to attack Taiwan. How ridiculous. He has truly betrayed Taiwan, humiliated its people and belittled himself.
Lien Chan and his family have repeatedly betrayed Taiwan for generations. What a shame. Let us decisively stop him this time.
John Hsieh
Hayward, California
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