Since February 26, the General Administration of Customs issued a notice on the suspension of the import of Pineapple from Taiwan, and to this day, the topic of Pineapple-related in Taiwan has become a hot search on the island. In this "pineapple storm," many "strange phenomena" on the island have repeatedly refreshed the three views of netizens on both sides of the strait, allowing us to see Taiwan's chaotic social ecology and absurd political atmosphere.
The "famous scenes" of the Green Camp are piled up
In this "pineapple incident", the most impressive and eye-catching thing for mainland netizens is probably a series of famous scenes of the "famous mouths" of the green camp on the island. For example, veteran media person Huang Chuangxia's so-called "18 kg pineapple theory" is "18 kg per person per day, eating for two consecutive weeks, is it difficult?" ”。 The remarks were "deafening and deafening, and as soon as they were uttered, they immediately became a "bursting stalk" that spread throughout the Internet on both sides of the strait.
In addition to a large number of netizens leaving messages and interacting under relevant reports, many self-media at home and abroad have also taken a large number of "evaluation videos" with "18 kilograms of pineapples" as the material, and finally came to the "conclusion" that "you (Huang Chuangxia) eat 18 kilograms by yourself, and your whole family eats 18 kilograms". The green media on the island has also been jokingly called "the biggest competitor of deyun society" by netizens.
In addition, there are many "Net red remarks" in taiwan media, such as some programs shouting "1 10 pieces of pineapples, 3 50 pieces" when selling pineapples;
For example, Yu Beichen, a retired general of the Taiwan Army known as "Brother Tufang", said that "the previous Taiwan pineapples were all eaten by the mainland, and no other part of the world could enjoy them";
For example, Yang Yufan, a southern farmer who calls himself the "Prince of Pineapples in Tainan Guanmiao Temple," boasted on a political discussion program that "Taiwan's pineapples are super simple to export to the mainland, as long as they look like pineapples, and today they will make the vegetable heads (turnips) they eat like pineapples, and they may also want them"; and there are also green media speculation that the mainland has stopped importing pineapples because "they can't afford to eat them." All kinds of absurd remarks are unbelievable, but without exception, they have become the passages that "netizens who eat melons" talk about.
DPP authorities "clown three steps"
When netizens inside and outside the island launched a group mockery of the relevant remarks of the green media, in fact, the performance of politicians in the DPP authorities was not much more than enough. Looking at the reaction of DPP politicians to the mainland's suspension of imports of Taiwan pineapple, it also continues the practice of relevant "Taiwan media clowns". We can summarize it as a "three-step" strategy. The first step is to throw the pot and absolve oneself of responsibility, insisting that pineapples are fine; the second step is to talk about political operations and economic affairs, but only to talk about political motives; the third step is to slander and vilify, confuse right and wrong with all kinds of strange remarks, strengthen the argument that mainlanders are "inferior citizens," and raise the sentiment of "anti-China" and "hatred of China."
Let's analyze them step by step. Let's start with throwing the pot. After a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council responded, Chen Jizhong, chairman of Taiwan's "Committee on Agriculture," held a press conference. In the process, Chen Jizhong repeatedly stressed that there are only 10 batches of Pineapple in Taiwan that have problems, and most of the others are of good quality, with a pass rate of more than 99.79%.
Isn't this pass rate amazing? However, a few days later, the Chinese Kuomintang People's Congress broke the news that this ultra-high pass rate was not won in quality, but in the algorithm. According to the news, if Taiwan pineapples are exported to the mainland, if they are quarantined to the shell worm, they will be destroyed or returned. Most of the merchants choose to return the shipment, because they can also return to Taiwan to sell, and the return is not included in the calculation of the pass rate, which is the truth of the so-called 99.79% pass rate.
Let's look at the political operations. Taking Chen Jizhong as an example, as the number one in agricultural affairs in Taiwan, Chen Jizhong did not reflect on his professional field at all in the face of the mainland's notice of suspension of imports, but began to politically smear the mainland at a press conference. He claimed that the batch of pineapples in question occurred before October last year, so why did the mainland only announce this notice in February this year? Isn't this a political move?
This statement is equally confusing on the island. However, a few days later, some Taiwanese scholars pointed out that Chen Jizhong had nothing to surprise. Before the official release of the notice, the mainland side had already notified Taiwan of the pineapple quarantine problem ten times through economic communication channels, but the Taiwan side did not review it. It can be said that Chen Jizhong's surprise and even choking at the press conference are completely "Biao acting skills".
In addition, Chen Jizhong and other Green Camp politicians often mention that they have to complain to the World Trade Organization (WTO), saying that the mainland's decision violates the fairness of international trade. In this regard, some Taiwan scholars pointed out that the mainland only prohibits us from importing one fruit, while Taiwan currently does not allow the mainland to import more than 600 agricultural products. ”
After the incident, POLITICIANS AT ALL LEVELS OF THE DPP UPDATED POSTERS SUCH AS "Eat Pineapples, Stand Fruit Farmers" on social media for the first time, which were well-made and full of creativity, and those who did not know the inside story thought that they were celebrating what "pineapple festival" was being celebrated.
Political hype was followed by all kinds of self-deprecating remarks spread by DPP politicians and the media. Including the aforementioned "18 kilograms" and "the mainland cannot afford to eat" and other arguments, they completely disregard the facts, but only rudely bombard through successive rumors to confuse the public opinion on the island and divert the focus of the problem.
Pineapples are like "nuclear bombs", blowing up a place of absurdity
After these three steps, we saw that a small pineapple, as if it were a "nuclear bomb" that landed at the center of power of the DPP authorities, blew up a crowd of grandstanding political clowns and absurdities on the ground. But after these operations, has the result of the mainland's suspension of imports changed? Will the sales of pineapple in Taiwan be better? The answer is clear at a glance. The more politically lively and lively the DPP politicians are, jumping up and down, the more difficult it is to solve the problems facing the economic field.
Many fruit growers on the island said that politicians' performances and shows were completely unhelpful to pineapple sales. The DPP authorities claimed to subsidize NT$1 billion, while fruit farmers said that to counsel agriculture and farmers need long-term plans, they should not throw money at problems, and whose pockets will the money go into? Will farmers feel it? He said: If we want to be leaders, we must first take good care of the people's stomachs, and if the peasants do not have enough to eat, how can they help Taiwan's agriculture to work hard, let alone go to the battlefield?
Some experts on the island pointed out that the "pineapple incident" is originally a simple economic issue, and as long as the DPP authorities communicate with the mainland side through the existing economic channels on both sides of the strait in a timely manner and improve the quality of their own products, they can not only easily solve this problem, but even take this opportunity to discuss matters such as the resumption of cross-strait communication mechanisms.
But it is clear that the DPP authorities are completely on the opposite side of the right path, and through the inertial operation of speculating in populism, the economic problems are infinitely magnified into political controversies. In the final analysis, it not only harms the vital interests of pineapple farmers on the island, but even creates new obstacles and crises to Taiwan's fruit exports, cross-strait economic and trade exchanges, and the development of cross-strait relations.
The DPP authorities' damage to Taiwan's economy and society is far more intense and deep than that of missiles; if the DPP is in power for a long time, it will be equivalent to Taiwan's long-term populism and long-term sinking.
Last year, the volume of cross-strait trade reached a new high, with Taiwan's surplus reaching more than 140 billion US dollars and its dependence on mainland imports exceeding 43 percent. Nowadays, the mainland side has only suspended pineapples due to quarantine problems, which can be described as "one of the nine cattle and one hair", which has set off such a terrifying wave on the island. No wonder some netizens lamented that the PLA may not be needed for cross-strait reunification.
It seems that this statement is not unreasonable. (Guan Qixing)