At the beginning of 2021, the DPP authorities can't wait to open up the import of "Lai Pig", even if they are strongly opposed by public opinion at that time, even if they are embarrassed and embarrassed by yesterday's right and wrong, they must also forcibly cross the mountain and curry favor with the United States.
At the beginning of 2022, the same drama was staged again, this time the DPP "sent" to the people on the island "New Year gift package" is food in the Fukushima nuclear disaster area of Japan.
On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake struck East Japan, and a huge tsunami caused a radiation spill at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which had a profound impact on the marine environment, food safety and human health. Japanese officials have rated the nuclear accident as 7, which is equivalent to the "Chernobyl nuclear power plant leakage accident" in the Soviet Union in 1986.
After the accident, all parts of the world strictly controlled The import of Japanese food, but in recent years, under the "efforts" of the Japanese government, most countries have gradually loosened their restrictions. On September 21 last year, the U.S. government also announced a complete lifting of the previously restricted food imports from 14 prefectures, including Fukushima, Japan.
So far, more than 40 countries and regions, including the 11 Member States that have acceded to the CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership), have been completely deregulated. The Taiwan region, which wants to squeeze into the CPTPP before the mainland, naturally has no choice but to be "concerned and expected" by Japan.
In fact, the opening of Fukushima food is an "undefused bomb" that Taiwan cannot escape. In particular, the DPP authorities, which "kneel when they encounter the United States and Japan," have been thinking about how to open up and when to open up since they came to power, and have repeatedly thrown out issues to test the direction of the wind, but they have caused a backlash from public opinion. In 2018, 7.79 million Taiwanese people voted to pass the "anti-nuclear food referendum" before it was temporarily shelved.
Taiwanese people's anti-nuclear food demonstration Image source Taiwan media
However, the DPP authorities tasted the sweetness in the "four referendums" held at the end of last year, using the "anti-Lai pig referendum" as an excuse, claiming that "the majority of the people are willing to accept international standards and look forward to Taiwan's participation in the world economic and trade system.", and on February 8, it officially announced the full opening of food imports from the five prefectures of Fukushima.
Not to mention that the "Lai pig" in the United States and the "nuclear food" in Japan are two things that are incompatible with each other, and they cannot be confused at all; not to mention that compared with the anti-nuclear food public opinion of 7.79 million votes, the "anti-Lai pig referendum" has only more than 4 million votes, and nearly 3.7 million votes have evaporated out of thin air.
In the absence of a second "anti-nuclear food referendum," the DPP hastened to use a so-called "internal poll" to cover up the situation, forcibly saying that "58.7 percent of the people support opening up." In fact, other more neutral public opinion organizations on the island have published polls showing that as of January this year, more than half of the people do not support the import of nuclear food.
Comparison of three polls in November 2016, September 2020 and January 2022 Picture source Taiwan media
On the day of the lifting of the ban, the YAHOO website also published the article "Japan Fukushima Food Unbanned, Do You Agree?" As of 7 p.m. on the 8th, more than 10,000 netizens have participated in the voting, and the results show that 12.3% of the netizens who agree very much, 10.2% who still agree with it, 9.5% who do not agree with it, and 64.3% who do not agree with it at all.
Tsai Ing-wen, as the leader of the Taiwan authorities, has repeatedly personally gone into battle to openly fool the people, distorting "anti-Lai pig" into "anti-US pig", and then equating "anti-US pig" with "anti-US", forcing the people of Taiwan to swallow "Lai pig", otherwise the United States will be angry. This time, he also played a word game, renaming "nuclear food" to "fu food", while shouting that "only the mainland and Taiwan in the world are not open" and manipulating the "anti-China" ideology, while threatening the people that if they do not open up nuclear food, "Taiwan has no access to CPTPP" and affect Taiwan's economy. People in the island's business circles have bluntly said that the DPP has exaggerated the relationship between opening up Fukushima Foods and joining the CPTPP.
Screenshot of Tsai Ing-wen Facebook
I would like to ask, "Lai Pig" has already eaten its belly, has the "US-Taiwan Economic and Trade Agreement" been signed? Isn't "U.S.-Taiwan relations" "unprecedented friendliness"? Aren't "Taiwan-Japan relations" "as friendly as ever"? Why did you join the CPTPP and feed the Taiwanese "nuclear food"? In the end, it is still a relationship of interest exchange?
In an interview with Taiwan media, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-che also angrily criticized the DPP authorities for giving the people "unrealistic expectations" and wanting to join the CPTPP by nuclear food "don't dream"!
Every election, Green Camp politicians will certainly shout out the slogan of "defending the health and safety of the people's food", but after coming to power, the life and health of Taiwanese people are immediately forgotten and turned into trading products that can be sold for their own interests. To paraphrase the DPP's usual saying, "the time and space environment (identity status) is different", after all, the votes have been deceived!