It doesn't matter. The Kuomintang is part of the problem not the solution, and Cheng can try, but will not be able to change this corrupted and failed Party that has more wantings for seeking independence from Mainland China in the shadows, and knows it's eventual lost of political power and significance is inevitable.
Thank you, Zichen. I had read them before I sent you the link. Ah, the “democracy of online comments”. So reliable. Remember 辜鴻銘 Gu Hongming’s famous line “Democracy? The ‘demos’ [mob] are ‘crazy’!” (Gu, apart from being a solid Confucian, had studied Greek and Latin).
Anyway, Cheng Li-wen speaks like a shrill nut-job, so good luck selling her schtick.
Whether she can truly revitalize the 113-year-old party remains uncertain. But the emergence of this new movement is genuinely interesting and, in my view, significantly under-reported—especially when existing English-language narratives overwhelmingly favor the DPP. Her ascent may reflect a search for a political force that is neither trapped in nostalgia nor driven by permanent confrontation. She holds—albeit not a large—chance of checking the objectively dangerous trend of sliding toward military conflict. Even a small possibility of redirecting the waves in the Taiwan Strait away from escalation should merit serious attention.
Zichen: all well and good in the world of soft sell authoritarianism. I get your point and I am long familiar with “Sino-hasbara”, but Cheng regularly indulges in the kind of crude bombast and political hyperbole that we’ve all grown used to with the clowns in the Trump White House. She is often quite incendiary and, of course, not averse to distorting the historical record.
Furthermore, her nonsense about Putin and the Russo-Ukraine war aligns with the talking points of your local propaganda industry.
I still do not get why it has anything to do with "soft sell authoritarianism." And I rarely see anything in English about the "crude bombast and political hyperbole" from the other side of the aisle.
It doesn't matter. The Kuomintang is part of the problem not the solution, and Cheng can try, but will not be able to change this corrupted and failed Party that has more wantings for seeking independence from Mainland China in the shadows, and knows it's eventual lost of political power and significance is inevitable.
Zichen: I far prefer this parody of the odious Cheng (“Putin isn’t a Dictator”) Li-wen. 入木三分：
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQhIPqcE_QA/?igsh=Y3AyMDhvZWNqdGRz
Geremie, check the comments section to the video though https://youtu.be/SyWxNzlJN54?si=MMI9kjrwyDTfocvN
Thank you, Zichen. I had read them before I sent you the link. Ah, the “democracy of online comments”. So reliable. Remember 辜鴻銘 Gu Hongming’s famous line “Democracy? The ‘demos’ [mob] are ‘crazy’!” (Gu, apart from being a solid Confucian, had studied Greek and Latin).
Anyway, Cheng Li-wen speaks like a shrill nut-job, so good luck selling her schtick.
Cheers, Geremie
Whether she can truly revitalize the 113-year-old party remains uncertain. But the emergence of this new movement is genuinely interesting and, in my view, significantly under-reported—especially when existing English-language narratives overwhelmingly favor the DPP. Her ascent may reflect a search for a political force that is neither trapped in nostalgia nor driven by permanent confrontation. She holds—albeit not a large—chance of checking the objectively dangerous trend of sliding toward military conflict. Even a small possibility of redirecting the waves in the Taiwan Strait away from escalation should merit serious attention.
Zichen: all well and good in the world of soft sell authoritarianism. I get your point and I am long familiar with “Sino-hasbara”, but Cheng regularly indulges in the kind of crude bombast and political hyperbole that we’ve all grown used to with the clowns in the Trump White House. She is often quite incendiary and, of course, not averse to distorting the historical record.
Furthermore, her nonsense about Putin and the Russo-Ukraine war aligns with the talking points of your local propaganda industry.
Ho-hum. So it goes, to quote Kurt Vonnegut.
Cheers,
Geremie
I still do not get why it has anything to do with "soft sell authoritarianism." And I rarely see anything in English about the "crude bombast and political hyperbole" from the other side of the aisle.
Dear Zichen, Of course you don’t. As Su Dongpo reminds us: 橫看成嶺側成峰，遠近高低各不同。
不識廬山真面目，只緣身在此山中。 Anyway, let’s just agree to disagree, agreeably.
Zichen: Cheng and your venerable organisation are advocates on behalf of a one-party state (spare me the nonsensical about