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\"u3000769241330518860fm253fmtautoapp120fJPEG\"After Taiwanese leader William Lai launched the so-called\u201cDefecting from China to the north\u201d argument, Taiwan’s\u201cMinistry of Education\u201d immediately began a series of\u201cTaiwan independence\u201d operations in the field of education, these include writing textbooks to\u201cRead the China threat\u201d and including United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 distortions in supplementary secondary school textbooks. Some comments on the island that the DPP authorities previously manipulated the textbook\u201cDe-china\u201d, now has further slide into\u201cAnti-china\u201d.<\/p>\n

The more the history books are changed, the Messier they become<\/p>\n

William Lai has announced 17 measures to confront the mainland, including\u201cComprehensively deepening literacy education for young Chinese students\u201d. According to a report in Taiwan’s\u201cChina times,\u201d Taiwan’s\u201cMinister of Education,\u201d Cheng ying-yiu, recently stated that\u201cThere is no doubt that Taiwan and China are one side and one country.\u201d The Ministry of Education will invite teachers of social science, history and other subjects to form a guidance group to compile textbooks on\u201cNational identity\u201d and\u201cUnderstanding the threat of China\u201d, which it hopes to develop before this summer vacation. KMT\u201cLegislator\u201d Weng Xiaoling said that it was very inappropriate for the head of the education department to say\u201cOne side, one country\u201d, which was clearly\u201cUnconstitutional\u201d. She criticized the DPP authorities for not daring to pursue\u201cTaiwan independence\u201d and for misinterpreting the law to pursue\u201cSubstantive Taiwan independence.\u201d. In the future, new textbooks to\u201cRead the China threat\u201d will only intensify cross-strait confrontation and not contribute to the peaceful development of the two sides. \u201cThe DPP just wants to make Taiwan go to war,\u201d he said. Democratic party\u201cLegislator\u201d Liu Shubin also said that the saying\u201cTaiwan, China, one side, one country\u201d is seriously\u201cUnconstitutional.\u201d As an important promoter of Taiwan’s education foundation, the head of the education department, it shouldn’t be just political ideology.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs office, Zhu Fenglian, said recently that the remarks promote the fallacy of\u201cOne side, one country\u201d splitting, and are a naked provocation for\u201cIndependence\u201d. She said that the Democratic Progressive party authorities are vigorously pursuing\u201cDe-sinicization,\u201d disregarding history, distorting facts, and trying to cut off cross-strait historical and cultural ties by using\u201cTaiwan independence\u201d textbooks, as a result, the historical memory of the young generation in Taiwan is confused and the national identity is distorted. \u201cSuch retrograde actions of forgetting one’s ancestors will be strongly opposed and rejected by compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the face of strong opposition both on and off the island, the DPP authorities are still going it alone. The Taiwan University of London issued a press release\u201cRecommending\u201d that social and high school history textbooks in junior high schools should include United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 and a number of international treaties. At the same time, so-called\u201cTreaty of San Francisco\u201d was added to social studies in junior secondary schools. Although Taiwan’s\u201cMinistry of Education\u201d claims that teachers can choose to use or not use these supplementary teaching materials, Wu Kuncai, head of the Department of National Chiayi University applied history, said that, the so-called\u201cTaiwan Treaty of San Francisco\u201d and others trumpeted the\u201cUndecided status of Taiwan,\u201d and bluntly stated that the DPP’s biggest goal was\u201cDe-sinicization.\u201d, \u201cThe Ministry of Education wants to change the tone of history textbooks,\u201d he said. \u201cIt’s just self-congratulation, wishful thinking, and the more it changes, the more disorderly it becomes. This will only confuse students.\u201d. He also said that young people on the island today refuse to be brainwashed by textbooks and are disgusted by political manipulation. The influence of textbooks has been diminishing, especially now that social media is developed and everyone has their own ways to understand cross-strait and international relations, \u201cThe students won’t talk to you.\u201d.<\/p>\n

Chiu Chih-hsien, president of the Whampoa Military Academy Alumni Association, criticized in an article that William Lai’s claim to\u201cRead China\u201d is actually an attempt to distort history and create cross-strait antagonism and hatred, \u201cThere is no greater irony in systematically shaping the young generation’s thinking that ‘the war of resistance against Japan has nothing to do with us, China is a foreign country’ on the 80th anniversary of the victory of the War of resistance against Japan and the restoration of Taiwan.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Black Hand behind this is Cheng Ying-yiu<\/p>\n

And the Black Hand behind all this is Taiwan’s\u201cMinister of Education\u201d Cheng Ying-yiu. According to Taiwanese media reports, Cheng Ying-yiu, born in 1955, was a National Sun Yat-sen University school principal and a political enthusiast. During the first change of political parties in 2000, he and the academic and legal circles of the\u201cTaiwan independence\u201d elements set up\u201cNorth club\u201d and other organizations, ideologically distinct. The report said Cheng had been named several times as a possible successor to the Education Minister since the DPP came to power and was Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro after William Lai came to power last May.<\/p>\n

After zheng yingyao became Taiwan’s\u201cMinister of Education\u201d, not only did the mainland students with degrees not resume, but also the academic and educational exchanges between the two sides were gradually restricted. He first announced that all Taiwanese colleges and universities were forbidden to communicate with the three universities in the mainland, namely Huaqiao University, Guangzhou Jinan University and Beijing Chinese University, and did not recognize their academic qualifications. Then he used the excuse of preventing the theft of key technologies, exchanges between schools on the island and 7 universities on the mainland are prohibited. Zheng Yingyao also asked the island’s primary and secondary school exchanges to Europe and the United States, Northeast Asia and other schools in the first place, \u201cCross-strait status quo, exchanges can be avoided to avoid.\u201d. Now he will compile textbooks on\u201cNational identity\u201d and\u201cReading the China threat,\u201d making him the DPP’s top\u201cAnti-china\u201d enforcer and putting cross-strait relations back on ice, the China Times said.<\/p>\n

A commentary published in the United Daily News questioned whether Zheng Yingyao’s\u201cOne side, one country\u201d argument was based on the DPP’s\u201cTaiwan independence platform\u201d and\u201cTaiwan future resolution text.\u201d Not the\u201cCross-strait People’s relations regulations\u201d. The\u201cMinister of Education\u201d, who does not administer according to law and has only the ideology of\u201cTaiwan independence\u201d on his mind, is simply the worst example for teachers and students in Taiwan. \u201cHe has become the source of chaos in education and the culprit of the people through the ages.\u201d. Duan Xinyi, secretary-general of the Chinese Language Education Promotion Association, asked whether elementary school teachers violated educational neutrality when they told children that\u201cWe are Chinese,\u201d which is the basic knowledge that Taiwanese people should have? \u201cMinister Zheng is probably the one who really wants to use education to try to confuse the national identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEducation for the next generation is a concern\u201d<\/p>\n

Taiwan’s\u201cMinistry of Education\u201d is using ideology to kidnap the next generation, causing concern in the island. The China Times electronic newspaper published an editorial saying that teaching materials in the island have gradually become a political tool to promote\u201cGradual Taiwan independence.\u201d It will have a profound impact on the young students’ value cognition, the formation of historical view and the future development of the two sides. After the Democratic Progressive Party came to power, it has long regarded education as a key field for the construction of\u201cTaiwan’s subjectivity\u201d. From the\u201cDe-sinicization\u201d of the history syllabus and the reduction of the proportion of classical Chinese, to hold high the banner of\u201cReading the China threat\u201d now reveals deep political manipulation. Zheng Yingyao not only carried out the educational policy of\u201cTaiwan independence\u201d, but also politicized and ideologicalized the academic space. The article said William Lai knew that\u201cDe jure Taiwan independence\u201d was difficult to promote, so he chose to take a detour and pursue\u201cFlexible Taiwan independence\u201d in the fields of culture and education to shape the next generation’s\u201cUnderstanding of friend and foe.\u201d. This technique is harder to detect immediately, but has a long-term brainwashing effect, and Cheng ying-yiu is the executioner of this\u201cPolitical Project\u201d. \u201cWith such a strong ideological minister, the next generation of education is at risk,\u201d the China Times said.<\/p>\n

An editorial in the United Daily News on the 23rd said that Cheng ying-yao continues to use politics to limit the horizons of Taiwanese students, \u201cCan there be peace in the Taiwan Strait in the future by reading textbooks about China’s threats, cultivating hostility among students from an early age, and increasing confrontation?\u201d The article said, adding that Taiwan was facing internal and external turmoil from the tariff war and the\u201cGreat Recall.\u201d The DPP authorities knelt in front of the United States and hunted down blue and white at home, while Cheng Ying-yiu led the war to the field of education, \u201cBut the long-term effects of distorting democratic values, obscuring historical perceptions, widening social rifts and deepening cross-strait hatred are incalculable. When knowledge loses its open nature and politics breaks the backbone of education, Cheng Ying-yiu will become the eternal sinner of Education.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPutting anti-china ideology and political motivation above education will not only affect the education profession, but will also bring chaos to the ruling and opposition parties and even to society, which is not conducive to social stability,\u201d Lianhe News said. According to the China Times, cross-strait relations have been at a low ebb since the Democratic Progressive Party came to power, \u201cWhen Taiwan’s youth are taught in the education system that China is a threat and China is an enemy, the space for dialogue of any kind in the future will be greatly reduced,\u201d and eventually peace may become a luxury. The article called on the DPP authorities to equip students with the ability of rational judgment and critical thinking. Improving the international competitiveness of young students is the true essence of education, and only in this way can Taiwan avoid falling into internal division and cross-strait collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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