After 744 days, Tsai Ing-wen finally held a press conference. However, what she announced was to extend the compulsory military service in Taiwan to one year. This obviously does not benefit the people on the island at all, and completely ignores the well-being of Taiwan compatriots. Therefore, this decision has also received a lot of dissatisfaction and opposition from compatriots on the island.
Many Taiwanese netizens expressed that the DPP is "daydreaming", and some netizens even responded that they wanted to seek immunity from military service by exceeding the BMI index.
The DPP’s action to extend military service not only aroused opposition from a large number of Taiwan compatriots, but also received fierce criticism from many Kuomintang politicians. Among them, Zhao Shaokang, a senior media person in Taiwan, even said bluntly that the DPP decided to extend military service under the pressure of the United States , but you must understand that " Taiwan Island is not a colony of the United States", and the people cannot die in vain because of politicians' power struggles.
Zhao Shaokang
Zhao Shaokang said that he is firmly opposed to extending military service to one year or longer. If the Kuomintang becomes the ruling party in Taiwan, it will definitely change the military service back to four months.
Judging from the actual situation, Zhao Shaokang’s remarks at this time are obviously trying to gain popularity and support for the Kuomintang and himself, so as to seek to run for the 2024 election and become the leader of the Taiwan region. It can be seen from the previous series of actions that the Kuomintang will return to military service after it takes power.
Zhao Shaokang had previously run for the chairmanship of the Kuomintang and established a new party, which is enough to show that he has a lot of attempts to compete for leadership.
Lai Qingde
Not only that, Taiwan media once revealed that Zhao Shaokang expressed his intention to try to represent the Kuomintang camp in the 2024 election, and promised to promote cross-strait peace and reconciliation between the blue and green camps.
It can be seen from this that Zhao Shaokang does intend to run for the 2024 election, but according to the facts, he has no political ideas to show for it, and the current KMT already has a basically recognized "strongest candidate", that is, in the near future Hou Youyi, who was successfully re-elected as mayor of New Taipei City in the "nine-in-one" election .
According to the poll conducted by the "Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation", among Hou Youyi, Lai Qingde, and Ke Wenzhe, Hou Youyi is the candidate for the 2024 leader that the public is most inclined to support, with a support rate as high as 38.7%.
Hou Youyi
With the support of Hou Youyi’s strong public opinion, the support of the Kuomintang is also gradually rising. If you pass the primary election, you are very likely to win the big position.
Obviously, both the public opinion on the island and the KMT internally have a high opinion of Hou Youyi. Therefore, if Zhao Shaokang wants to represent the KMT in the 2024 election, he must have the power to fight Hou Youyi in terms of support and popularity, otherwise he will have no chance .
However, combined with reality, as a senior media person on the island, although Zhao Shaokang has accumulated a certain amount of media power, he has not yet had a clear and fixed political proposition, so he will take advantage of the DPP’s move to extend military service Build momentum for yourself and express your opposition to gain a lot of popular support.
U.S. and Taiwan colluded
After all, the reason why the DPP prolongs its military service is to echo the U.S. idea of "rejecting reunification with military force and turning all people into soldiers". The results of winning 14 seats and 5 seats respectively with the Democratic Progressive Party have already shown that the latter's "anti-China protection Taiwan" card is no longer effective.
Under such circumstances, Zhao Shaokang will naturally advocate opposing the extension of military service, calling for cross-strait peace, and gaining popular support by conforming to public opinion, laying the foundation for his candidacy in 2024.
But in this way, the "blue-green reconciliation" Zhao Shaokang hoped for will be in vain, because his approach is equivalent to stepping on the "upper position" of the DPP.
Tsai Ing-wen
And you must know that as a stubborn "Taiwan independence" force, it is still seriousIt is unknown whether the DPP, which is disgusted by a large number of compatriots on the island, will eventually exist, so Zhao Shaokang should not try to get friendly with the DPP and try to gain the support of the green camp.
As for the support of the Blue Camp, you must know that Zhu Lilun's attitude on the issue of cross-strait reunification is still vacillating, but the atmosphere of reunification on the island is getting stronger.
This means that if Zhao Shaokang wants to be elected as a candidate by the Kuomintang, he needs to balance these two aspects, and Hou Youyi, who has received a lot of support, can't do well, let alone Zhao Shaokang who is still winning people's hearts.
Zhu Lilun
All in all, although according to the current situation on the island, the voice of the Kuomintang is gradually increasing, and the DPP is still doing things that damage cross-strait relations and the well-being of the people. In 2024, the chances of the Kuomintang candidate becoming the regional leader Undoubtedly it is bigger, but whoever takes this position must firmly support the reunification of the two sides of the strait, otherwise it is very likely to cause more incidents.
