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As Lai Ching-de's inauguration ceremony approached, the "American Institute in Taiwan" officially announced on 15 August that a five-member US cross-party delegation would "visit" Taiwan to attend the "520 inauguration ceremony."
You must know that the day before, the mainland had just issued a clear warning about this.
On May 14, the Chinese Embassy in the United States held a "media briefing" on the Taiwan issue, at which spokesman Liu Pengyu clearly warned the US government: immediately stop official exchanges between the United States and Taiwan!
However, not only did the United States regard China's warning as a "deaf ear," but even Japan made it clear early on that 37 members of the Japanese Diet would attend Lai's inauguration.
Source: Huanqiu.com 2024-05-10 Regarding "Xie Changting's claim that 37 Japanese parliamentarians are scheduled to attend Lai Qingde's inauguration ceremony, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs refutes it!" ".
As Taiwan is China's provincial-level administrative region, and all Taiwan issues are China's internal affairs, how does the mainland respond to the United States and Japan's practice of "interfering in the foot" despite warnings?
Who and which countries will participate in the "520 ceremony"?
In fact, Lai Qingde's inauguration ceremony this time was not as "full" as everyone imagined.
In addition to those countries that have openly announced the "severance of diplomatic relations" with Taiwan, even many officials on the island have expressed their refusal to participate in the "520 ceremony."
Among them, the refusal of all the Kuomintang representatives to attend Lai Qingde's inauguration ceremony is the most eye-catching.
Regarding this kind of behavior that does not give face to future leaders in the slightest, Hong Mengkai, secretary of the Chinese Kuomintang caucus, said: It is a Monday, there is no holiday, and they should focus on official business.
In addition, of the six mayors of the six "municipalities directly under the central government" in Taiwan, only Tainan City Mayor Huang Weizhe, who belongs to the Democratic Progressive Party, was confirmed to be able to attend the ceremony.
The remaining five mayors either directly said that they would not attend, or that they had other arrangements for the day, and they were not sure whether they would be able to attend in the end.
After talking about who refused to attend Lai's inauguration, let's take a look at who will attend the ceremony.
As far as the leaders of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the Taiwan authorities are concerned, the vast majority of them will attend the ceremony, and the mainland will not interfere with these people, because after all, they all belong to their own people and do not involve the issue of interference in internal affairs.
Therefore, the outside world is most concerned about which countries will participate in the "520 ceremony......
According to the Taiwan authorities, more than 40 countries have confirmed that they will attend the ceremony, including the United States and Japan, as well as one of the few "countries with diplomatic relations" with Taiwan, with a total of more than 400 people.
It is worth mentioning that the principal and deputy leaders of eight countries have decided to attend in person, and Wu Zhaoxie, responsible person of the "foreign affairs department" in the Taiwan region, has even taken advantage of this to tout the positive attitude of "friendly countries."
Wu Zhaoxie
But Lai Qingde's seemingly beautiful inauguration, in fact, can definitely be described as cold compared with Tsai Ing-wen's previous ones.
It looks like a beautiful scene, but it is actually a deserted inauguration
If compared with Tsai Ing-wen's inauguration ceremony on May 20, 2016, Lai's inauguration ceremony is really not on the table.
You must know that when Tsai Ing-wen was in office, there were more than 700 foreign guests in attendance, of which 22 were "countries with diplomatic relations" alone.
Of course, after Tsai Ing-wen's years of huo, there are now only 12 so-called "countries with diplomatic relations" with Taiwan.
Therefore, it is absolutely appropriate to describe Lai Qingde's "520 inauguration ceremony" as cold.
The reason for this situation is closely related to the continuous enhancement of China's international status.
As the basic principle of "one China" continues to take root in the hearts of the people, the fact that Taiwan is a member of China has become more and more recognized by the international community.
However, for these countries that still insist on attending Lai Qingde's inauguration ceremony, the mainland will not allow them to act recklessly on China's territory.
This is especially true for Japan, which Lai Ching-te has always emphasized that the so-called "Taiwan-Japan relations" are good, and the United States, which has always wanted to sow discord between the two sides of the strait.
China sternly warns
Xie Changting
According to relevant Taiwan media reports, Hsieh Chang-ting, "Taiwan's representative to Japan," said that 37 members of the Japanese Diet are scheduled to attend the so-called "presidential inauguration ceremony" to be held on 20 May.
At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on May 10, spokesman Lin Jian strongly condemned Xie Changting's statement of "presidential inauguration".
Spokesman Lin Jian said:
There is only one China in the world... Taiwan has never been a country, there is no "president," and the Taiwan issue is purely China's internal affair.
After stressing that the Taiwan issue is purely China's internal affair, Lin Jian also issued a stern warning to the Taiwan authorities, saying that the idea of the DPP authorities colluding with external forces in an attempt to "seek independence" will absolutely never succeed.
However, as soon as he refuted Xie Changting, who had made wild remarks, the United States did not stop again, and as Lai Qingde's inauguration day continued to approach, the situation in the Taiwan Strait could be described as a wave of unsettled and wave after wave.
Information source: Huanqiu.com 2024-05-16 Regarding "The United States was revealed to be sending 5 people to attend Lai Qingde's inauguration ceremony, netizens on the island sarcastically: Come to see Taiwan's power outage?" ".
According to a report by Taiwan's "Central News Agency" on 15 July, a US cross-party delegation will go to Taiwan to attend Lai Ching-te's inauguration ceremony, including two former US officials, one expert on the Taiwan issue, and the chairman and president of the "American Institute in Taiwan," a total of five people.
You must know that the day before, Liu Pengyu, spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the United States, stressed to the United States on this issue that the Taiwan issue is purely China's internal affair, and at the same time, the Taiwan issue is also the first red line in Sino-US relations that cannot be crossed!
In addition to the official warning given to the United States, many netizens on the island have also expressed their opinions on this.
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Some netizens on the island questioned the purpose of the United States' visit to Taiwan, feeling that the United States "is coming to talk about protection money again" and "let's come to sell arms." Some netizens ridiculed, "Come to see Taiwan's power outage."
Why did the United States send a bipartisan delegation to Taiwan to attend the "520 Inauguration Ceremony" to see the power outage in Taiwan?
Is this a metaphor, or is there something unique in it?
Taiwan's power outage
It turned out that on May 12, because of a small thunderstorm, there were continuous power outages in many counties and cities in Taiwan.
According to statistics, a total of 7,945 households were affected by the power outage, and it is hard to imagine that in this era, Taiwan will have such a large-scale power outage due to thunderstorms.
And this situation is still very common in Taiwan, you must know that since April this year alone, there have been more than 40 power outages in Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
For local residents, power outages are commonplace, and from the perspective of frequent power outages alone, they are even worse than the power supply system in the rural areas of the mainland in the 90s.
Although the relevant departments have been troubleshooting, they have not completely solved the power outage problem in various regions of Taiwan.
In this regard, Taiwan's "United Daily News" even ridiculed:
"Every power outage has a reason, some of which are even outrageous to the point of being unbelievable, but in fact, there is only one problem, that is, the screws of Taipower are not locked at all, and the people can only pray that they will not become the next unlucky ghost."
Many people on the island have even begun to hold up placards in protest in an attempt to make the Taiwan authorities really pay attention to frequent power outages, a major issue that has a bearing on people's livelihood and livelihood.
It is precisely for this reason that regarding the fact that the US cross-party delegation went to Taiwan to attend Lai Qingde's inauguration ceremony, netizens on the island ridiculed whether the United States came to see Taiwan's power outage.
Regarding the United States and Japan's visit to Taiwan despite warnings and questions, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian warned the Taiwan authorities: "We are telling the DPP authorities that colluding with external forces to carry out "provocations for independence" will never succeed. ”
At the same time, it is hoped that the DPP authorities will understand a truth, that is, anyone who betrays the interests of the state and the nation will inevitably be liquidated by history.
You must know that no matter how the world pattern changes, China will surely achieve complete reunification!
Key Sources:
1. The original article was published on the Straits Shinkansen on May 17, 2024 on the report that "the United States will send a delegation of former senior officials to participate in the '5.20' and China clearly opposes it".
2. The original article was published on the global network on May 10, 2024 Regarding "Xie Changting's claim that 37 Japanese parliamentarians are scheduled to attend Lai Qingde's inauguration ceremony, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs refutes it!" ".
3. The original article was published on Huanqiu.com on May 16, 2024 Regarding "The United States was revealed to be sending 5 people to attend Lai Qingde's inauguration ceremony, netizens on the island sarcastically: Come to see Taiwan's power outage?" ".