Former Taiwan leader Lee Teng-hui fell ill and died at 19:24 on July 30, 2020. After the news came out, the reaction of mainland netizens can be summarized as "one finally, two pity". The word "finally" does not need to be explained much, after all, Lee Teng-hui has been "killed" too many times in recent years; "two pity" is that "it is a pity that he was not allowed to see cross-strait reunification," and the other is that "it is a pity that he was not tried in public."
According to traditional Chinese culture, "the dead are greater", there should be compassion for the death of an old man. In the minds of Chinese, Lee Teng-hui has become synonymous with "traitors" and "Taiwan independence," and even more so in the eyes of Taiwan's reunification figures, he is a "party traitor and a thief of the state." A leader of the Taiwan region who can say that "the sovereignty of Diaoyutai belongs to Japan" is destined to become a sinner that the Chinese nation will never forgive.
In his later years, in order to consolidate the rationality of the KMT's ruling power in Taiwan, Chiang Ching-kuo wanted to promote people from his own province to important posts, and Lee Teng-hui, who was a man with his tail between his legs, seized the opportunity to take over the political authority on the island after a hundred years of Chiang Kai-shek. The road of "Taiwan independence," which is deliberately planned and deliberately carried out in the name of "democracy" and under the guise of "localization," has been in Lee Teng-hui's calculations. After that, Lee Teng-hui first set off a dispute between the mainstream and the non-mainstream in the KMT, forced the elites of the party's few and strong provinces to flee, and dismembered the KMT for the first time; at the same time, he supported the DPP to sit on the throne, created political soil for the DPP through the mechanism of popular election, and let the DPP step by step have enough energy to challenge the KMT. After that, he "froze the province" by lightning, "abandoned the Song Dynasty" in the 2000 election, dismembered the Kuomintang for the second time, and secretly helped Chen Shui-bian to ascend to the throne.
Since then, while Taiwan society has been mired in political party strife that will never end in peace, the great China view of history and the greatEr China sentiment left over from the "two Chiang Kai-shek periods" have been gradually eroded by Lee Teng-hui and his followers of the "Taiwan independence" line with the "Taiwan independence view of history" cloaked in the cloak of "localization and democracy." Blue-green vicious struggles and ethnic antagonisms have become one wound after another that Taiwan society can no longer completely heal. Lee Teng-hui's generation, acting for their own selfishness, dragged Taiwan onto the cliff-like "Taiwan independence" road in order to satisfy their personal desires and ambitions for politics.
Lee Teng-hui perfectly explained what politicians do unscrupulously to achieve their goals.
Lee Teng-hui is the biggest behind-the-scenes promoter of "Taiwan independence." During his reign, under the pretext of democratization and "localization," he carried out many "constitutional amendments" and carried out a nerve-wracking transformation of the "one-China constitutional system" of the original "two Chiang Kai-shek periods" in order to help him reject dissidents and monopolize great power. The evil consequences brought to Taiwan by all this are that each time it has slipped more and more toward "substantive Taiwan independence."
In addition, during Lee Teng-hui's term of office, Taiwan's education began to "de-Sinicize," poisoning several generations of Taiwanese youth, and some people followed him onto the evil road of "Taiwan independence."
In July 2017, the Taiwanese media held the headline "The Great Trial of History!" Who are the sinners of Taiwan's development? The online voting for the topic allowed netizens on the island to vote for the "sinners of Taiwan's history" in their minds, and Lee Teng-hui ranked first.
Of course, there is no shortage of people on the island who sing praises to Lee Teng-hui. Without exception, this group of people are all "Taiwan independence" politicians who grew up drinking the milk delivered by Lee Teng-hui; they all climbed up along with the chaos of "Taiwan democracy." Without Lee Teng-hui, there would have been no political stage for this group of people. Lee Teng-hui died of illness, and this group of people symbolically wailing a few words and sighing a few times is also a little reward for the so-called "grace of knowing and encountering."
Hong Xiuzhu, former chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang, expressed the hope that Lee Teng-hui's illness and death would represent the end of an era of chaotic Values in Taiwan. The "Taiwan independence" promoted by Lee Teng-hui did not succeed in his lifetime, nor could he succeed; with Lee Teng-hui's illness and death, the chaotic "political legacy" he left to Taiwan is, as Hong Xiuzhu said, and it is time to end. Followers of Lee Teng-hui's "Taiwan independence" line must clearly understand reality that the balance of strength between the two sides of the strait has already undergone irreversible changes.
In the annals of huanghuang history, history has proved and will continue to prove that those who betray national interests will never have a good end, and will eventually be nailed to the pillar of shame of history.