Tong Zixian, chairman of Pegatron Taiwan, has repeatedly reiterated that Taiwan cannot rely entirely on green power, and continues to advocate a "golden ratio" of 30% green energy and 30% nuclear energy. Photo of Taiwan's "United Daily News".
Since coming to power, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities have always regarded the "non-nuclear homeland" as a "god card," but after President Lai Ching-te took office, including Guo Zhihui, head of the economic department of the Taiwan authorities, and Tong Zixian, chairman of Taiwan's Pegatron Board, who is also the vice convener of the Taiwan authorities' climate change committee, have all put forward their views on the "openness" of nuclear power, which has also stirred up the sensitive nerves of the DPP's "non-nuclear" nature, and attracted severe criticism from some people in the green camp. Lai Qingde's office was forced to come forward to state that "we respect the opinions of energy diversity, but Lai Qingde did not instruct Tong Zixian to talk about nuclear energy", although the clarification is strong, but it does not directly refute Tong's arguments.
Lai Qingde's office's response to Tong Zixian's related speech a few days ago "seems" to "extinguish fire" and "cut". But there is also a view that in fact, Lai Qingde has his own calculations in his heart. Because Tong Zixian was a pocket list of candidates for the head of Taiwan's administrative agency before Lai Qingde came to power; In addition, the "Climate Change Countermeasures Committee" established by Lai Qingde a few days ago is also served by Tong Zixian as the deputy convener, and the representative is still quite dependent. Therefore, Lai Qingde's response, although it is clear, does not directly refute Tong Zixian's argument.
Tong Zixian was once a pocket list of candidates for the head of Taiwan's administrative agency before Lai Qingde came to power Image source: Taiwan's "China Times News Network"
In his inaugural speech, Lai Ching-te, the leader of the Taiwan authorities, did not mention a "non-nuclear homeland"; although the outside world interpreted it at the time that the nuclear energy policy of the Lai Ching-te administration might be different from that of the Tsai Ing-wen period, Zhuo Rongtai, the head of Taiwan's administrative organ, immediately responded to the media's questions with the phrase "a non-nuclear homeland is a goal that can never be abandoned." A few days later, Guo Chih-hui, head of the economic department of the Taiwan authorities, who had always advocated that "nuclear power plants can be conditionally extended," changed his tune after a dinner with the DPP caucus and threw out a completely opposite rhetoric.
But Tong Zixian's performance was quite different, not only did he not change his pro-nuclear attitude, but his speech became sharper.
Tong Zixian recently said that Taiwan's energy policy has been stuck with the slogan of "non-nuclear homeland", which has put Taiwan's energy energy into a dilemma of high cost, poor resilience, air pollution, and even serious environmental damage. At the same time, he believes that green energy should be paired with nuclear energy, with a golden ratio of 30% and 40% thermal power generation, in order to provide stable power in the future. He also said, "Taiwan's carbon emissions have always been high, but they always feel good about themselves, claiming that they are gifted students, and they are obviously the tail of the crane, but they say that they are good, so I think Taiwan is collectively in a state of sleepwalking." ”
Tong Zixian (left), Lai Qingde (right) Image source: Taiwan's "China Times News Network"
Tong Zixian also said that Zheng Lijun, deputy head of the administrative agency of the Taiwan authorities, mentioned on the 3rd that "green energy power generation has surpassed nuclear energy", although he is familiar with Zheng Lijun, the two have different energy views. He believes that at this stage of nuclear energy after tossing and deliberate shutdown, the green energy and nuclear energy figures to compare, green energy is not used to "replace nuclear energy", green energy is used to "reduce carbon emissions" to prevent global warming as the goal, "hatred of nuclear, hatred of nuclear" is the wrong direction, so he solemnly appealed, "global warming is the enemy of the whole people, nuclear energy is not", should let nuclear energy and green energy work together!
Kuomintang public opinion representative Wang Hongwei said that Tong Zixian had a great influence on Lai Qingde, and he frequently spoke out to the outside world, and later although Lai Ban did not authorize Tong Zixian to speak, he did not criticize or moderate Tong Zixian's speech, questioning whether Tong Zixian and Lai Qingde were making black and white faces?
Wang Hongwei questioned that Tong Zixian's speech was very different from Zhuo Rongtai and others, could this be the DPP's split in policy? In any case, it shows that there are serious differences within the DPP about whether the anti-nuclear fundamentalist faction or the energy policy should be adjusted, so the DPP should carefully review whether the "non-nuclear homeland" should continue to be implemented.
Taiwan Nuclear Power Plant Image source: Taiwan's "China Times News Network"
Taiwan's "Business Times" commented that Tong Zixian took the pulse of Taiwan's energy policy from the perspective of a scientific and technological person, and even if the analysis and discussion integrated into the scientific basis were reasonable, it was still difficult to escape the tart of the hardcore anti-nuclear activists in the green camp. Lai Ching-te, as the convener of the "Climate Change Countermeasures Committee", also stressed that this is not a stack of beds and houses in the existing administrative system, and since the deputy convener has put forward an argument that is different from the current energy policy, should Taiwan continue to use nuclear power on the precipice, or will it continue to cling to the "anti-nuclear god card"? Please ask Lai Qingde to make a decision quickly!