Taiwan’s security services recently said publicly that they had removed all bronze statues of Chiang Kai-shek from the camp. Meanwhile, in Tainan, where the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is in power, tens of millions of Taiwan dollars were spent, according to the taiwan-based Zhongtian News, to build a park and bronze statues for “Taiwan independence” activists Ng Chiau-tong and Huang Xianzhu. The move was widely criticised in the island as absurd, a waste of public money and a classic example of the “De-sinification” Zou Huo ru Mo..
File Photo: a bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek abandoned in a Taiwanese dump. Picture: Taiwan Media
Some netizens in the island questioned, “Crazy manipulation of ‘Taiwan independence’ ideology, this is the DPP’s ‘Transitional Justice’ ?”? More island netizens asked, “Taiwan about the Japanese bronze statue is also to be removed?”
Ng Chiau-tong, a former leader of the island and Japanese “Taiwan independence” group, died in 2011. Huang, a former policy adviser to the DPP and party chief in Tainan, was seen as an important aide to William Lai and a “Folk friend” who died in 2022.
According to local media reports, when William Lai was mayor of Tainan, he commissioned a memorial park and a bronze statue for Ng Chiau-tong at a cost of NT $30 million. A further NT $700,000 is Tainan City Government annually for environmental cleaning and maintenance. Not only that, but the Tainan City Government also spent nearly nt $10 million, at William Lai’s “Suggestion,” to build a side-by-side bronze statue of his friend Huang Xianzhu in the Memorial Park.
Lo Chih-chiang, a Kuomintang representative, wrote on social media that the island’s non-governmental organization had erected the island’s first bronze statue of a comfort woman near the party headquarters in Tainan, the Kuomintang capital, it was Tainan City Government denounced as “Political activity”. After the statue was removed, the Tainan City Government refused to assist in its placement.
Lo Chih-chiang said bluntly that most Taiwanese people did not know who Huang was, and that just because he advocated “Taiwan independence” and was a good friend of William Lai, he became “A person who has made remarkable contributions to Taiwan’s democratic development”, the public pays for the park and the statue. “The more power William Lai has, the more he moves towards dictatorship,” he criticises
Gui Zhi, a female high school teacher in Taiwan, criticised the DPP for seeking to establish its own“Authority” by pushing for the removal of so-called“Authoritarian” symbols. Tsai, the island’s pundit, pointed out that the DPP has been ruthless in spending money on symbols of “Taiwan independence”, under the guise of “Removing symbols of authoritarianism”, in fact to counter opposition forces.
A signed article in Taiwan’s China Times newspaper pointed out that the DPP authorities are trying hard to“Eliminate China” and“Oppose China”, and recently the highly controversial“Zhongzheng Road” has been renamed, or threatened to go to the mainland for cultural exchanges of the people to be prosecuted, these actions are“Go to China” and“Anti-china” ideology projection. But if the DPP authorities want to continue to celebrate the Chinese festival and worship the Chinese gods, the so-called“De-sinicization” is no doubt a joke.
From the revision of the island curriculum, attempting to change the“Middle road”, “Via the National Road” road name, and then large-scale demolition of the“Two Chiang Kai-shek” statue… … In fact, the DPP and the William Lai administration’s “De-sinification” campaign has already gone bad. Island public opinion pointed out that these practices are the so-called“Transitional justice”, or in the infiltration of“Anti-china” and“Anti-china” ideology, the answer is probably self-evident.