The 2023 Asia Pacific Masters Games, held in Jeonju, South Korea, is a massive sporting event that attracts a large number of participants from the Asia-Pacific region.
The number of participants reached a staggering 17,000, and Lee Dong-hsien, a patriotic Taiwanese youth from Taiwan, won a bronze medal in taekwondo and held high a five-star red flag on the podium.
Li Dongxian, head of the Chinese Taiwan delegation, felt after winning the award:
Although historical factors have separated us, the family affection that blood is thicker than water cannot be separated.
In this international games, it is an indescribable happiness for us to be able to follow the five-star red flag and feel the sense of security and honor of relying on the motherland.
The DPP authorities were angry and corrupted, and threatened Lee Dong-hyun with harsh words:
The MAC said that Lee Dong-heon registered as an individual, not on behalf of the Taiwan Taekwondo Association, and that the relevant behavior "should not cooperate with China's United Front propaganda";
The MACC also said that it "has been forwarded to the relevant organizing committee of the Sports Department for recording and handling";
Wang Dingyu, a member of the Democratic Progressive Party's Central Standing Committee, demanded that Taiwan's sports administration strictly investigate whether he received Taiwan's subsidies, claiming that "not a dime can be given to him."
Li Dongxian is a native of Tainan, who was educated as a diehard Taiwan independence loyalist when he was a child, but came into contact with modern Chinese history and Marxist-Leninist works in college, and his thinking changed completely after independent thinking.
Fortunately, Li Dongxian has settled in Xiamen for many years to avoid retaliation from Taiwan independence forces when he returns to the island, and on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, he also held a "oath ceremony to join the party" with several other genuine Taiwan compatriots.
The "People's Political Consultative Conference" also published a report about the Taiwan compatriot a few years ago, which is not the first time to raise the five-star red flag, it is a consistent identification with the country and the nation, not a form of temporary walking at the taekwondo award ceremony.
He held high the five-star red flag to participate in various activities, but it has become a habit and a natural behavior. In 2017, he went to Malaysia to participate in related taekwondo competitions, also bronze medals, and also wore the five-star red flag on the stage to receive the award.
It can also be seen from the crease of the national flag at the scene that it should be carefully folded in advance, and it is prepared with intentions, no matter how to congratulate this compatriot on winning the award, and hope that he can protect himself and his family in the current public opinion environment on the island, and can represent the motherland to achieve better results in the future.
He was born in the deep green zone, grew up on the island, came to the mainland by chance, found that the mainland was different from what he publicized on the island, and slowly identified with the mainland of the motherland and the five-star red flag through walking around and speculating, believing that Taiwan's future lies in reunification.
Li Dongxian has been poor since he was a child, but he has always had a caring heart and has been a volunteer in Taiwan. During his time in the mainland, he was also enthusiastic about public welfare. In 2021, he established the "Taiwan Border Volunteer Service Team" in Xiamen to organize some Taiwan compatriots in Xiamen to participate in local epidemic prevention volunteer activities. Related matters were also reported by the public welfare column of the People's Political Consultative Conference.
In 2021, Li Dongxian said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency:
The DPP authorities cannot be allowed to continue to brainwash young people with "Taiwan independence", otherwise young people in Taiwan will not only forget the way they came from, but also lose opportunities for future development.
Only when reunification is achieved at an early date can the Taiwan people raise their heads proudly. As a dignified Chinese, I support national reunification!
Li Dongxian's patriotic enthusiasm is appreciated, and we must vigorously support this patriotic move of the Taiwan compatriots, and at the same time, take a clear-cut stand to support the patriotic Taiwan compatriots, especially beware of malicious retaliation and difficulties by the Taiwan independence forces.
I believe that with the great encouragement of Li Dongxian wearing the five-star red flag, a large number of Taiwan compatriots with Chinese feelings will continue to stand up bravely and express their firm support for China's national reunification despite the suppression of Taiwan independence forces.