The Kuomintang’s presidential nomination is “in no hurry” and “it’s still early” because several possible contenders are still in a state of “civil war” and the time for one has not yet come. However, no matter who will qualify in the future, the choice of “war and peace” is very likely to be an election strategy that the Kuomintang candidates want to continue to operate. In order to maximize Taiwan’s national interests, it must be consistent with the outside world. Therefore, it is necessary for voters to blow the whistle in advance to warn once morest such improper internal divisions.
Why is the manipulation of “war and peace” extremely immoral? The reason is that it is easy to confuse the enemy and the enemy, and the real enemy is outside. Elections in a democratic country are a struggle for political power between individuals and political parties, and cannot go beyond national consensus and national identity.
In the past, when the Kuomintang appealed to represent “peace”, there was a derivative called “avoiding war”. There is even suspicion of spreading “fear” to the people, which invisibly interferes with “war preparations”. Clearly preparing for war has been the norm in Taiwan since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. For example, the “National Defense Mobilization Preparation Law” was announced and implemented as early as 2001. The Ma Ying-jeou government of the Kuomintang revised the provisions in 2014 and 2019. This year, the Ministry of National Defense is planning to revise it once more. Opinions can be expressed, but without sufficient rational debate, the KMT puts out a stance of fully blocking the revision, which inevitably gives people the misunderstanding of abandoning weapons and not fighting.
In fact, the Kuomintang people’s talk regarding “avoiding war” is a way of digging their own graves. Looking at the party history of the Kuomintang, counting from the founding of the Xingzhonghui in 1894, the history that has been described as “glorious” by the Kuomintang people all the way, does it include the revolution and founding of the country, the challenge of Yuan to protect the law, the Northern Expedition for reunification, the founding of the country by the War of Resistance, and the anti-communist fight once morest the rebellion? The Kuomintang should dare not deny it, because these deeds are still openly posted on the official website of the Kuomintang. Then may I ask each of the above-mentioned points, which time is not a final battle?
If you really want to avoid war, why did the Kuomintang become a revolutionary party? And why “revolt”? He also “revolted” eleven times, must it be the order of the Qing Manqing? For the sake of peace, why don’t you go to Beijing to talk to Lafayette, and everyone communicate well? Yuan Shikai became the president, why is the Kuomintang unable to seek peace, and insists on resuming the “battle once morest Yuan”? Yuan Shikai’s death is not enough. In 1917, the “war to protect the Dharma” will be fought once more until 1922. Do we have to lose one defeat following another? The prime minister of the Kuomintang was like this, and so was the later president of the Kuomintang. Why didn’t they have a good-faith dialogue with these Beiyang warlords and insisted on launching the Northern Expedition? Then from 1926 to 1928.
As for the eight-year war of resistance once morest Japan, it was even more outrageous. Foreign enemies invaded. For the sake of peace, why didn’t the Kuomintang avoid the war? Wang Jingwei believed that he might not win the war, launched a peace movement, and actively negotiated with Japan. Why did the Kuomintang slander him as a “traitor”? As for the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, it was especially absurd. From 1945 to 1949 when it was defeated, why didn’t the Kuomintang give up from the very beginning and directly compromise with the Communist Party? If they were not anti-communist, they would not have had to come to Taiwan back then. Why bother to work so hard? Now that it is in Taiwan, why does the Kuomintang make “counterattacking the mainland” a national policy? What is the reason for the thirty-eight years of martial law?
The Kuomintang embarked on the road of exterminating the ancestors, which should have started with the Lianhu Hui in 2005; following that, several party chairmen continued, each more self-satisfied and resigned. This kind of behavior that would be executed in Chiang Kai-shek’s era and imprisoned in Chiang Ching-kuo’s era (if necessary, the family can be exterminated) is called “avoiding war” by contemporary KMT members, and this is its best definition. However, if the Kuomintang really wants to call itself a “peaceful” and “avoiding war” party, I am afraid that it must quickly destroy the party history and remove the portraits of the prime minister and president from the shelves, so as to help restart the “new page” of history. Free Times 0309
