Since the establishment of the DPP in the 1980s, Taiwan's political arena has presented a situation in which the Blue Camp headed by the Kuomintang and the Green Camp headed by the Democratic Progressive Party have confronted each other. The long-term blue-green struggle has complicated the island's politics, and the development of society has often caused chaos due to party struggles. Many people have long been tired of the vicious contest between the blue and green parties, so when Ko Wenzhe played the slogan of "surpassing blue and green" in 2019 and formed the Taiwan People's Party, the People of Taiwan placed great support on it. The People's Party, which had only been in existence for a few months, suddenly won more than 1.5 million party votes in the 2020 elections, making it the third largest party in the legislature. Today, Ke Wenzhe is also secretly planning the next step of the campaign chess game, and Gou And other social opposition forces are his possible partners in the future. What is the specific situation, and wait for the next slow way.
The white power represented by the Taiwan People's Party
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For a long time, Taiwan's political circles have been accustomed to using the color spectrum to judge the political tendencies of a political party. The Kuomintang is a positive blue, and the New Party, the People First Party, etc. can be regarded as a pan-blue camp. On the other hand, the DPP is a positive green, and on the one hand, the One Country Action Party, the Taiwan United Party, and the Times Force Party are all pan-green camps. Independent political groups outside the blue-green are basically squeezed by the two camps, and the space for survival and activity is very limited. For example, the Red Parties such as the China Unification Promotion Party and the Workers' Party of Taiwan, which support reunification, are marginal areas on the island of Taiwan. In 2019, the non-party mayor of Taipei, Ko Wen-che, suddenly announced the formation of a new political party, not only following the name of the "Taiwan People's Party" formed by Mr. Jiang Weishui, which is very famous in Taiwan's history, but also playing the slogan of "beyond blue and green". Because Ko Wen-che was a doctor, the representative color of the Taiwan People's Party was considered to be the white of the white coat, and the political forces under Ko Wen-che were also called white forces, truly becoming the third force besides blue and green. From a political point of view, the Taiwan People's Party is also significantly different from the blue and green parties.
Ko Wenzhe became the leader of the white power
Ke Wenzhe was first an emergency department physician at the National Taiwan University School of Medicine, because he was the first to introduce ECMO technology (Yeke membrane technology) from the United States at the end of the last century, and on January 30, 2008, he set a world record for patients to use Yeke membrane for 117 consecutive days and then remove it, so he was called "the father of Yeke membrane". He has long been very concerned about politics, and once appeared in the media for writing an article evaluating the corruption case of Chen Shui-bian's son-in-law, Zhao Jianming. After the rise of online media in 2010, Ke Wenzhe became an Internet celebrity, gaining a large number of fans because of his funny and funny style. In 2014, a program produced by Taiwan's Eastern Sen News called "Taiwan Revelation" interviewed Ko Wen-che, and the title was "Genius Doctor Ko Wen-che, the first person in a hundred years of Taiwan University / Out of the White Giant Tower Ke Cannon Needle And Current Affairs". Ko Wen-che's political establishment has since been fully established, and the early Ko Wen-che had a green political stance, serving as president of the National Taiwan University Medical School Support Association when Chen Shui-bian ran for the leadership of the Taiwan region. Therefore, in the early days of entering the political arena, he called himself "dark green", and also reached an offensive and defensive alliance with the Dpp, winning the throne of Taipei mayor in one fell swoop. But as Ko Wen-che's foundations were solidified, contradictions between him and the DPP began to emerge, and he began to integrate opposition activists into his team.
Ko Wen Tetsu (center) plays Naruto
Ko Wenzhe has a political purge, he does not like to co-opt very controversial figures, because he himself relies on online populism to start his own business, he does not want a second person to appear around. Therefore, the staff and senior staff around him are either high-level intellectuals with bright academic qualifications or pragmatic people with stable personalities. Ko Wen-che's number one staff officer was Cai Biru, a nursing physician at National Taiwan University Hospital who had worked with him for more than two decades. Cai Biru was born in a poor peasant family in the Pingtung region of Taiwan Province, and chose the nursing profession in order to make money as soon as possible. She excelled in her studies at school, obtained her nurse certificate in a short period of time, and later entered the intensive care ward of the Affiliated Hospital of NTU School of Medicine as a nurse. She worked with Ke Wenzhe for more than twenty years, and later became the leader of the Yeke membrane group, and was nicknamed the "mother of yeke membrane". After Ko Wenzhe chose to enter politics, Cai Biru has also followed him, and after Ko Wenzhe was elected, she also entered the Taipei City Government as an adviser and director of the mayor's office. Because of the trust of Ko Wenzhe, Cai Biru was also called "underground mayor" and "shadow mayor" by Wang Shijian, a Taipei city councilor who opposed Ko Wenzhe, and ridiculed her staff for chaotic politics. Cai Biru's auxiliary role in Ke Wenzhe is very obvious, and it has also become Ke Wenzhe's right and left arm. In the 2020 election of public representatives in the legislature, the People's Party achieved a good result, with five people being guaranteed to enter the legislature. Cai Biru was one of them and served as the secretary general in the party caucus. The others were also important representatives of the White Force, namely Lai Xiangling, Zhang Qilu, Gao Hong'an, and Qiu Chenyuan.
Cai Biru
Lai Xiangling is the labor bureau chief under Ko Wenzhe and an activist who has been active in the political arena and the grassroots of society for a long time. Focusing on social work and labor issues, she once called on the public to "not be fooled by the two major parties" in a march, and vigorously called for the arrival of a third force. It was against this backdrop that she came to Ko's side and stood in solidarity with the air crew who protested against Tsai's government during the collective strike at China Airlines in 2016. Lai Xiangling, as the director of the Labor Bureau of the Taipei City Government at the time, openly stood at the bottom of the people's platform, and also showed the fundamental differences between the white power and the green government on the issue of people's livelihood. In 2017, the Tsai Ing-wen government imposed a bill on labor issues, which seriously hurt workers' rights and compressed basic rest periods. Lai Xiangling publicly wrote against the passage of the bill and asked the Tsai Ing-wen government to listen more to the public opinion, but unfortunately it did not work.
Lai Xiangling
Zhang Qilu is an elite member of the social science field on the island of Taiwan, and he is particularly brilliant in terms of academic qualifications and experience. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, and after graduation, he first worked as a teacher at the University of Southern California before returning to the social science community in Taiwan. He has served as dean of the School of Social Sciences at Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, a tenured distinguished professor, and is a senior and respected researcher in the field of scientific research on the island of Taiwan. He was a member of the "Friends of Little Britain" association in Kaohsiung City that supported Tsai Ing-wen's election, and also served as the ceo of the think tank of Green Camp general Guan Biling. The reason why he was able to come together with Ke Wenzhe is mainly because of his deep academic background. Most of Taiwan's senior intellectuals are hardcore supporters of the DPP. Ke Wenzhe is born in this circle, so his goal is to use his academic background and network resources to turn this part of the vote for his own use. Zhang Qilu is the representative of the middle, and Ke Wenzhe hopes to use him as a signboard to absorb more high-level intellectuals into his camp.
Zhang Qilu
Qiu Chenyuan is a representative of the Zhongzhuang faction in Taiwan's business circles, he was the 7th president of the Youth Chamber of Commerce of the World Federation of Taiwan Businessmen, the 25th executive director of the World Federation of Taiwan Businessmen, and has a direct influence in the international business community. At the age of 27, he went to Vietnam alone to work hard, and became a representative of young Taiwan businessmen in just ten years. As a political amateur, Ke Wenzhe's fundraising ability and economic support have always been the focus of attention from the outside world, and with the joining of young people in the business world, the momentum of the People's Party has also started to a certain extent. And Ke Wenzhe is now playing a big game, and the key place is also in Taiwan's business community.
Qiu Chenyuan
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The relationship between Ko Wenzhe and Gou Has always been speculated by the outside world, and the Taiwan People's Party was founded because its consonant was "Taiwan Democratic Party", and the pronunciation was very similar to Gou's name, which also triggered speculation from the outside world. In fact, the collaboration between these two people has already begun. Gao Hong'an, deputy general manager of Hon Hai Technology Group and director of the Industrial Big Data Office under Gou's account, became the representative of public opinion in the legislative body of the Taiwan People's Party in 2020, becoming a symbol of the happy cooperation between Gou and Ko Wenzhe. Gao Hongan is an outstanding talent in the field of computer technology and has entered the Hon Hai Technology Group for a long time. She is also highly valued by Gou, and after entering the political circle, she concentrated on the high-tech industry and had a certain influence. One of her most famous things was to publicly sing the "Song of the Tower Green Spots" that satirized the DPP, which triggered the DPP's shelling of her. Ko Wen-che's behavior of currying favor with Taiwan's gold lords is not only this, he also pulled Wu Xinying, the third generation of Taiwan's large enterprise Xinguang Group, into the Taiwan People's Party. Although the Taiwan People's Party has joined these rookies in the business world, the root of the political parties on the island of Taiwan still lies in the power game in Taiwan's political elections.
Gou's subordinate Gao Hong'an
The white power now has a certain scale, and the former mayor of Keelung, Xie Ligong, the former mayor of Keelung, also jumped ship to the People's Party. But Ke Wenzhe's layout is far more than that, the key to this game of chess lies in how the white power moves between blue and green, and maximizes its own interests between vertical and horizontal. Ko's roots are in Taipei City, which is a stronghold that he can hardly give up. On the KMT side, Zhu Lilun issued a military order after becoming the new party chairman, and in the 2022 taiwan local county and city chief election, the KMT will take one of them in Taoyuan City and Taipei City. Jiang Wan'an and Luo Zhiqiang in the Kuomintang are all eyeing this position. In contrast, in the Green Camp, Chen Shizhong, the head of Taiwan's health department who was originally rumored to be a possible taipei mayoral candidate, had no possibility of emerging from the epidemic because of the outbreak of the epidemic, and there was no suitable person in the Green Camp to fight. Therefore, the key point for white power to win back Taipei City may lie in the cooperation between white and green.
Ke Wenzhe's team
Although Ko Wenzhe has been constantly bombarding the DPP's Tsai Ing-wen authorities in recent years, he has attacked the absurd policies of Tsai Ing-wen and Su Zhenchang. However, if we take stock of Ko Wen-che's speech, we can find that Ko Wen-che's cannon fire is mainly concentrated on Tsai Ing-wen and Su Zhenchang, the current leading figures of the DPP, and not on the attack on the entire DPP. This is also the plot of Ko Wenzhe, who left a glimmer of leeway to the DPP's descendants. Tsai Ing-wen is about to step down in 2024, she will move from the front desk to the background, Su Zhenchang is also likely to retire before Tsai Ing-wen leaves office, and the DPP will usher in a new leader. It now seems highly likely that Lai Qingde, who has a deep grudge with Tsai Ing-wen, has come to power, and Lai Qingde is also a doctor with a similar educational background to Ke Wenzhe, and they also dislike Tsai Ing-wen and Su Zhenchang. Therefore, there is still room for the reconciliation of white and green in the future, and the civil unrest that broke out in the green camp recently is the prelude to its own loose organization.
Can Ke Wenzhe have the last laugh
The biggest bargaining chip in Ko's hands today is Taipei's popular base, its support for the pandemic, and its direct participation in the 2024 Taiwan election. How Ko Wenzhe uses these three points has become the key to how the white power will develop in the future, and now there is news that Ko Wenzhe wants to unite with Gou And let Gou taiming take the main post and take the deputy position to partner in the election. Gou's advantage lies in his wealth and power, and his personal image is also domineering, which is very recognizable and influential in today's Taiwanese society. If Ke Wenzhe can be willing to become a deputy, then the capital of the First World War is enough. The White Force is likely to repeat the history of the 2000 unaffiliated candidate Song Chuyu's vote surpassing the Kuomintang candidate's consecutive votes, becoming a truly third force. And Ko Wenzhe can use his wavering position to negotiate with the two major blue and green parties, and may be able to achieve greater results with ease. More importantly, candidates from both the Blue and Green parties will be relatively weak in 2024. Whether it is Hou Youyi, Zhu Lilun, and Zhao Shaokang in the Blue Camp, or Lai Qingde and Zheng Wencan of the Democratic Progressive Party, although they are all likely to qualify for the big position. But they do not have the aura and momentum of Ma Ying-jeou and Tsai Ing-wen, which is the strength of Ko And Gou. The blue and green parties suffer from loss, hesitation, and even infighting, and self-dissolution is an opportunity for white power to emerge.
Gou and Ko Wen-che
In addition to the 2024 Taiwan general election, Ko Wenzhe's votes in the two Taipei mayoral elections in 2014 and 2018 are also interesting. In 2014, Ko Wenzhe was courteous to the DPP, which did not send its own candidate. Ko Wenzhe faced the Kuomintang's Streak Shengwen, Ko Wenzhe won 853983 votes, Lien Shengwen won 609932 votes, and Ko Wenzhe won overwhelmingly. In 2018, because ko wenzhe and Tsai ing-wen were at odds, the DPP sent Yao Wenzhi to run for mayor of Taipei. As a result, Ko Wen-che won 590663 votes, the KMT candidate Ding Shouzhong won 577096 votes, and the DPP's Yao Wenzhi won 244342 votes. Ke Wenzhe won a thrilling victory and was successfully re-elected. This shows that the DPP's support in Taipei has remained at about 20% for a long time, while the KMT's support has basically remained at 40%, white power has become a key minority, and white-green cooperation is the only way to defeat the KMT. "White-green non-cooperation" is now tantamount to handing over the throne of Taipei mayor to the Kuomintang. The DPP, which has always been good at electoral calculations, probably does not want the KMT to be elected so smoothly in the 2022 county mayoral election. Because of the impact of the epidemic, the rising momentum of the People's Party has become a fact that cannot be ignored, and the white-green cooperation drama that occurred in Taipei City in 2014 is likely to be staged again. Ko Wenzhe's heir, Huang Shanshan, is also inextricably linked to the Green Camp, and her brother Huang Shuguang is the first second-class admiral of the Navy hand-picked by Tsai Ing-wen, and with this relationship, it is not impossible for the White Power to return. It remains to be seen how Taiwan's internal political struggle develops.