According to Taiwan‘s Central Time News Network on August 3rd, long-standing bilateral exchanges have been repeatedly labeled as “unification war” in recent years. Lin Zujia, former chairman of the Taiwan Development Committee, lamented that this is undoubtedly political consciousness interference. If exchanges are equivalent to “unification war,” then Qiu Chui, chairman of the Taiwan Land Commission, who was teaching at Jinmen University and frequently visited the mainland, was also being “unification war”ed?
According to the report, according to the statistics of the Taiwan Education Authority, between 2022 and 2025, the number of students from Taiwan University and Graduate Schools who went to the mainland for education exchange increased from 2,196 to 5,745, the number of high school employees increased from 676 to 1,161, the number of middle school students increased from 0 to 1,021, the number of elementary school students increased from 38 to 1,045, and the number of accompanying teachers increased from 661 to 1,281.
Lin Zujia believes that academic exchanges between the two sides that have been going on for many years have not seen cases of “unification war”, but now they have been labeled as such, undoubtedly due to ideological intervention. She can‘t help but wonder if Qiu Chuizheng, who frequently traveled between the two sides when he was teaching in the past, was also “unified war”? Returning to the academic perspective, the mainland‘s international publication of papers in the field of technology and social sciences is quite active. If the two sides can communicate normally, it will be of considerable help to each other.
Chen Zhengui, former president of Taiwan Practical University, added that Lu Sheng‘s visit to Taiwan not only increases school tuition income and demonstrates goodwill exchange between the two sides, but more importantly brings good competition and stimulation to the campus. Through mainland students‘ learning performance, it brings different observations and comparisons to Taiwan students, which positively contributes to both student learning and school development, and student exchange can also lead to teacher exchange. Scholars on both sides have advantages in research fields, and through academic cooperation and sparring, it can inspire more innovation and research results.
Xu, a master’s student from Taiwan Transport University who went to Shanghai Maritime University for an exchange, said that the university would not interfere with Taiwanese activities, and there was no problem of “bringing them to participate in strange activities and instilling strange knowledge”.
Zhang Han, a spokesman for the State Administration, once said at a routine press conference that “Unified War” is the abbreviation of the Unified Front, and “Great Solidarity and Great Union” is the eternal theme of the Unified Front. After the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, the Unified Front of the Anti-Japanese Nation was formally formed, making a great contribution to achieving the great victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Now, the main meaning of the Unified War is still “solidarity,” still uniting people‘s hearts and gathering strength. The Democratic Progressive Party authorities repeatedly “stain” the Unified War and use it to blacken the mainland‘s Huitai people-interest policy, bilateral exchange activities, and so on, with sinister intentions. We hope that our broad Taiwanese compatriots will clarify the origin and true meaning of the “Unified War” and will no longer be fooled and bewitched by it.