Straight News: A sentence by Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng went viral on the Internet, and it is only a matter of time before the so-called "countries with diplomatic relations" in the Taiwan region are cleared.
Special commentator Chen Bing: This sentence says a reality, a trend, and the word zero is particularly vivid and powerful, so it has become a widely disseminated language of Internet celebrities. This sentence shows a reality, that is, the number of so-called "countries with diplomatic relations" of the Taiwan authorities has declined, and after Tsai Ing-wen came to power in 2016, there are 8 countries that have severed ties with the Taiwan authorities, the latest of which is Nicaragua, and Tsai Ing-wen also went to attend the inauguration ceremony of the president of the country in 2017. At present, there are only 14 countries with official relations with Taiwan, most of which are small Latin American countries and Pacific island countries, and there is only one country left in Europe, the Chinese Vatican, which is also discussing the establishment of diplomatic relations with China.
The emergence of such a phenomenon is very much related to the enhancement of China's strength and the expansion of its influence, and more countries in the world have more accurately understood the one-China principle and realized that Taiwan is a part of China, so they have moved closer to the Chinese government. They also know the harm of the Taiwan authorities' "reliance on foreign countries to seek independence," and they know that the DPP authorities, which are engaged in "Taiwan independence" and separatism, are increasingly unable to go, so they return to the right path of the one-China policy recognized by the international community.
This sentence also shows a trend, that is, China's pace of realizing national reunification is accelerating, the intensity and breadth of cracking down on "Taiwan independence" forces are strengthening, the cohesion of the Chinese people in defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity is improving, and the complete reunification of the country is the aspiration of the people and the trend of the times.
Now everyone on the earth knows that China's realization of national reunification is not a question of whether it will be or not, but a question of when. Once the country is reunified, Taiwan's so-called "countries with diplomatic relations" will cease to exist. Therefore, there is a very powerful sentence that it is only a matter of time before Taiwan's "countries with diplomatic relations" are cleared. To say that the signal implied by this sentence is that the process of China's national reunification will be accelerated and the belief in reunification will be firmer.
Straight News: Foreign media have exposed that Taiwan is paying money, and Guatemala is used to lobby the US government, what do you think about this matter?
Special Commentator Chen Bing: This is another case of Taiwan's money and foreign affairs, and what is even more tragic than ever is that the Taiwan authorities have played the role of a payer, which is simply too humiliating and undignified. Guatemala is one of Taiwan's only 14 remaining so-called "countries with diplomatic relations," and taiwan bears the $900,000 cost of hiring Trump's supporters to lobby for better relations with the United States.
Even Ma Ying-jeou jr. was surprised by this humiliating thing, but the foreign affairs official of the DPP authorities still said with great shame that this was mutual assistance and mutual benefit, promoting pragmatic cooperation, and did not violate US law. The question is, if the Taiwan authorities can afford to feed lions to open their mouths in order to maintain the so-called "diplomatic relations"? Are you still not responsible for Taiwanese taxpayers? Is the money spent on foreign affairs all gone? The United States has recently taken a very bad attitude toward Guatemala, slamming the Guatemalan government for corruption and incompetence and undermining the rule of law, and taiwan's money does not seem to have been done.
For Taiwan, this humiliating thing has also sounded the alarm bell, can you afford to pay the cost of foreign affairs? Taiwan's so-called "countries with diplomatic relations" are said to be concerned about the money transactions in Taiwan and Lithuania. Lithuania has only 3 million people, very small, and spent $1.2 billion on a "naming right", as well as other undeclared deals. Then, the "countries with diplomatic relations" of more than 3 million people are using Lithuania as a benchmark to reach out to the Taiwan authorities for money, more money. The Taiwan authorities should stop their hands and cannot go on inexorably on money and foreign affairs, otherwise they will lose miserably and the Taiwan compatriots will not agree.
Straight News: After Fang Fang, a veteran taiwanese artist, was interviewed by the Central Radio, Film and Television Corporation, the Mainland Affairs Council of Taiwan said that it had been united front and that responsibility should be pursued.
Special Commentator Chen Bing: Taiwan officials really slapped themselves. Fang Fang poked at the back of the "Taiwan independence" forces, and they counterattacked backwards, threatening and restricting others' speeches, and also withholding their hats. There is more than one such thing.
CCTV recently produced a song, "We Sing a Song Together," asking Taiwanese artists Xiao Jingteng and Ouyang Nana to sing along with Chinese mainland singers, and the words were filled in by Fang Wenshan, a well-known lyricist in Taiwan. Whether it is Fang Fang being interviewed or Taiwanese artists producing programs with mainland counterparts, they are all promoting cross-strait reconciliation.
Politically and emotionally speaking, they are all easing cross-strait relations, enhancing intimacy, and adding bricks and tiles to the families on both sides of the strait. The nervousness and unreasonableness of the Taiwan authorities show that they have gone far on the road of "Taiwan independence" and do not even agree that the blood on both sides of the strait is thicker than water.
I hope that the Taiwan authorities will treat Taiwan artists and agents with the attitude of "art to art and politics to politics." Everything is politicized, which is not conducive to cross-strait exchanges and even more endangers national reunification and national integration.
The author 丨 Chen Bing, special commentator of Shenzhen Satellite TV's "Live Broadcasting, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan"