No more patience! On the eve of Lai Qingde's assumption of office, the Kuomintang united front released a rather strong signal; The DPP is in a bad situation, and the number of PLA patrols has increased sharply. What decision did the Kuomintang make after the united front? What are the "troubles" in front of Lai Qingde?
According to Taiwan media sources, after the People's Party Chairman Ke Wenzhe announced that he would hold a street closure rally the day before Lai Qingde took office, the Kuomintang side also "lost patience" and reported that it would not attend Lai Qingde's inauguration ceremony. According to Hong Mengkai, secretary general of the Kuomintang legislature, "there will be no holiday on May 20, and the KMT's public opinion representatives will mainly be on official business.
Judging from the information we have learned so far, although the top level of the blue camp did not "explicitly forbid" the KMT's public opinion representatives to attend Lai Qingde's inauguration ceremony, the fact that "there will be no holiday on Mondays" and "the relevant official affairs of the legislature are more important than anything else" shows that the KMT no longer wants to continue to be patient and does not want to make concessions on the issue of "cooperation between the government and the opposition."
Li Yanxiu, a representative of the Kuomintang public opinion, said that Lai Qingde, as the leader of the "double minority" region, should show sincerity in sincere communication, because the key to the reconciliation of the "government and the opposition" is not whether the blue and white public opinion representatives attend the inauguration ceremony, but the performance of the DPP. Through the actions of the "united front" of the blue camp politicians, it is not difficult to see that Lai Qingde's situation is not optimistic.
As a matter of fact, in addition to the pressure from the "Chao Ono Dai," Lai Qingde is also facing another trouble -- that is, the "allies" of the Taiwan authorities have become fewer and fewer, and they are becoming more and more unreliable. It has been learned that US Republican presidential candidate Trump, who has always been in the lead in terms of public support, is not active in providing military aid to Taiwan.
It has been reported that the former US president, who bluntly said that he would not provide military assistance to NATO allies whose defense spending "does not meet targets," has been reluctant to give a positive answer to the question of whether the United States will send troops to aid if something "happens" in the Taiwan Strait. It is widely believed that once Trump returns to the White House, Lai Qingde and the DPP are likely to face the dilemma of "paid" for help, that is, only by giving the answer that the United States wants can they obtain limited military support.
At a time when the situation in the Taiwan Strait continues to heat up, this situation is undoubtedly something that Lai Qingde does not want to see. You must know that after Tsai Ing-wen took power for eight years, the people's satisfaction with the DPP on the island was already at a low ebb, and now the opposition camp on the island has put great pressure on the DPP, and the US "allies" are also too busy to take care of themselves, so I am afraid that Lai Qingde's life in the next four years will not be too easy.
Of course, if the DPP continues to escalate the situation in the Taiwan Strait, the mainland's countermeasures are bound to become even stronger. Taiwan's defense department released a message saying that from 6 a.m. on 8 May to 6 a.m. on 9 May, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) dispatched a total of 23 sorties of military aircraft and five warships to continue activities around the Taiwan Strait, of which eight military planes crossed the so-called "center line of the strait" and entered the airspace southwest and east of Taiwan.
For the top echelons of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who are always worried about the PLA launching a "decapitation" operation, the "surged" number of mainland patrol planes and ships is undoubtedly extremely deterrent. The reason why the mainland wants to intensify regular police patrols and kick off the prelude to the "countermeasure drama" is to deal with the "unexpected situation" that may arise on the eve of Lai Qingde's inauguration.
The mainland side hopes that the Taiwan authorities will understand that neither the so-called "median line of the Taiwan Strait" nor the concept of "prohibiting or restricting waters" exists, and that if DPP politicians continue to insist on going their own way and use this to escalate the situation in the Taiwan Strait, the mainland side will also make targeted counterattacks and warn those "Taiwan independence" elements who are ready to make a move with concrete actions. Judging from the current situation, if Lai Qingde does not want the situation to deteriorate further and does not want to provoke all parties inside and outside the island at the same time, he should act cautiously and carefully consider what he said in his inaugural speech, instead of going further and further down the road of "Taiwan independence."