United Microelectronics Corp founder Robert Tsao (曹興誠) recently wrote in an article that anyone in Taiwan can see that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) legislators are taking orders from KMT caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅?萁), who is in turn being directed by Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Chairman Wang Huning (王滬寧).
Wang’s mission is to divide and weaken Taiwan to make Taiwanese surrender without a fight, Tsao wrote.
The master-slave relationship between Wang, Fu, and KMT and TPP legislators can be summed up as the KMT and TPP belong to the same “Dang” family, and that dang (黨), or party, is the CCP.
In February 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) convened the “Symposium on Party News and Media Discourse” in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, where he emphasized that party and state media are the battlefields on which to disseminate propaganda, and that they must belong to the state — the CCP.
On the morning of Feb. 19, 2016, Xi visited China Central Television’s (CCTV) offices. The state media outlet had erected a welcoming banner with the slogan: “CCTV’s surname is ‘The Party.’ [We are] absolutely loyal. Ready for inspection.” Such a display clearly tramples on the dignity of media workers and journalists, exposing the outlet’s servility toward the CCP.
Compared with the CCTV’s shamelessness display, Fu has little time or room to be conciliatory. He studied at China’s main institution on the CCP’s “united front” tactics — the “Taiwan division” of Jinan University — earning a “doctorate” from its Department of International Studies.
He has been completely immersed in “obedience to the party, following the party, and obeying all its directives and orders.” He is well-versed in the “united front” tactic of first: divide, second: teach, third: create schisms, and the CCP’s often treacherous methods of “creating upheaval to exacerbate the enemy’s internal incompatibilities.”
Each time these CCP schemes are exposed, Taiwanese can learn a bit more about this KMT-TPP “Eighth Route Army” under Fu’s command, and how it seems to use a zombifying drug to craze them into wrecking Taiwan’s Constitution and sowing chaos in the government. The KMT and TPP have pushed through three odious revisions of key laws without proper debate or decorum, and haphazardly hacked away at critical government budgets, all in service of Fu’s — and Beijing’s — aim of stamping out Taiwan. The evidence is in the open for all to see.
The CCTV’s banner expressed the outlet’s total loyalty to the CCP. Fu and his followers’ attempts to fracture and weaken Taiwan is their show of absolute loyalty to the same masters. Taiwanese need to recall every Fu follower in the legislature to strike back at the CCP, and display the strength of justice and righteousness in Taiwanese society. Let us strive together to throw them out.
Yu Kung is a Taiwanese entrepreneur working in China.
Translated by Tim Smith
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