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Statement by the China's Taiwan Affairs Office

10 Jan 2024 5 3

Qian Wu

Inserted 3 months ago

“The Democratic Progressive Party [DPP] authorities are deliberately hyping up the so-called 'military threat from the mainland' and exaggerating tensions. This is entirely to seek electoral gain.”

China’s defence ministry spokesman

28 Dec 2023 3 2

Tsai Ing-wen

Inserted 1 year ago

“I must shoulder all the responsibility. Faced with a result like this, there are many areas that we must deeply review. The results failed our expectations. We humbly accept the results and accept the Taiwanese people's decision. It's not like the DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] has never failed before. We don't have time to feel sorry. We fell, but we will stand up again.”

President of Taiwan

26 Nov 2022 2 2

Alexander Huang

Inserted 2 years ago

“The KMT's decision to set up an office in [Washington] is aimed at better communication of our policy positions to Washington's policy communities, clarifying misinformation [on the party] … renewing friendships and making new ones. In the perceived long competition between the US and the People's Republic of China, the elites from Washington to Wall Street are in fact sided with US interests, not the DPP or the KMT. We truly believe that, especially in the next six to 10 years, both the US and Taiwan need to 'buy time' in dealing with a rapid expansion of the PRC's influence in the Indo-Pacific region. The KMT is the party that can better maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait - a shared first priority between the US and Taiwan - by enhancing defence capability while mitigating threats at the same time.”

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KMT’s international affairs director and a special adviser to its chairman

25 Dec 2021 7 5

Brian Hioe

Inserted 2 years ago

“While campaigning, the KMT framed the referendum as not simply a vote on these four issues, but as a referendum on the Tsai administration as a whole. Likewise, with midterm elections set to take place next year, the referendum would be perceived as a midterm for the midterm, in some sense, in that the referendum would be read as indicating the strength or weakness of support for the DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] going into future elections.”

Newbloommag

The founding editor of the independent New Bloom Magazine

18 Dec 2021 5 2

Taipei Times

Inserted 2 years ago

“Not only it is impossible for the DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] to act as a one-party state in a democratic Taiwan, but using state resources to implement and defend its own policies - having been elected in a landslide election - is exactly what a government is supposed to do in a democracy.”

Editorial piece by Taipei Times

16 Dec 2021 3 2

Tsai Lien-sheng

Inserted 2 years ago

“It is inappropriate for China to link legal matters with politics. The episode could be worrisome for Taiwanese businesspeople. Far Eastern has made donations to not only the DPP, but also to the KMT [Kuomintang] and other parties. This is what it has to do, but it doesn't necessarily mean it supports Taiwanese independence.”

Chinese National Federation of Industries (全國工業總會) secretary-general

24 Nov 2021 9 4

Wang Jianmin

Inserted 2 years ago

“The US wants to strike a balance, as it does not want to offend the Chinese mainland too much, but at the same time, it wants to show it will not stop playing 'the Taiwan card.' This includes calling the entities it invited 'participants' rather than 'countries.' The excitement of Taiwan secessionists over the invitation reflects the Taiwan DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] authority's difficult international situation.”

Senior cross-Straits expert at Minnan Normal University in East China's Fujian Province

24 Nov 2021 7 4

Shaw Chong-hai

Inserted 2 years ago

“Some people openly advocate secession in Taiwan, but their relatives have been operating businesses in the Chinese mainland for many years. Some Taiwan businessmen have never prevented their relatives from pursuing secession or anti-mainland activities. Now it is very simple: if your relatives in the island advocate secession, then you cannot go to the Chinese mainland to make money. In the future, as long as anyone has secessionist tendencies or openly supports secessionism, whether in word or deed, he will not be able to obtain an entry certificate to the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao. The sanction scope can be much broader than just the DPP camp.”

Columnist and former head of the school of social sciences at Chinese Culture University in Taiwan

05 Nov 2021 6 3

Chang Ya-chung

Inserted 2 years ago

“The EP delegation's visit is only symbolic to show support. As discontent toward the DPP [ Democratic Progressive Party] authority mounts on the island of Taiwan, Tsai [Tsai Ing-wen] is trying to create an anti-mainland atmosphere once again, passing its public policy failure to a political obstacle set by others.”

Member of Taiwan's major opposition party KMT and Sun Yat-sen School president in Taiwan

03 Nov 2021 4 4

Global Times

Inserted 2 years ago

“A fundamental danger is that the political conflicts across the Taiwan Straits are intensifying with no sign of easing. The DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] authority is opposed to reunification and is seeking 'independence.' The strategic hostility of the US toward the Chinese mainland continues to rise. No matter how to evaluate a war, predictions that a war will eventually occur due to irreconcilable political conflicts or miscalculation are growing among the three sides [China - Taiwan - US].”

Editorial piece by Global Times

02 Nov 2021 5 5

Hu Xijin

Inserted 2 years ago

“Peaceful reunification would likely result from applying enough pressure to make the DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] leadership believe it had no choice but to surrender. Personally, I believe there is still a chance for peaceful reunification, but it must be based on the condition that the DPP authority feels cornered and will perish if they do not accept reunification.”

Editor-in-chief of the hawkish mainland Chinese state-run tabloid Global Times

01 Nov 2021 5 3

Ling Tao

Inserted 2 years ago

“The DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] should accept responsibility for power outages on May 13 and 17, and July 27. The outages tested the confidence of Taiwanese enterprises and inconvenienced the public. The government's dependence on coal-fired power plants has harmed public health and taken the nation further from the international effort to fight climate change. The government did not improve the economy, livelihoods or environmental sustainability - failures for which any politician except Su [Taiwan Premier - Su Tseng-chang] would have resigned. The public knows how little credibility Su has to cast aspersions.”

Taiwanese politician - KMT Culture and Communications Committee director-general

29 Oct 2021 8 4

Zhao Xiaozhuo

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Taiwan Straits situation is getting worse because the US and the Taiwan secessionist DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] authority controlled by the US are provoking, and this will definitely receive retaliation from the Chinese mainland…the US will keep playing 'the Taiwan card' and support the authority on the island to expand its 'international influence'. Although the US treats China as its major strategic competitor, the two sides should at least try to avoid the worst-case scenario, to improve crisis management.”

Research fellow at the Academy of Military Sciences of the People's Liberation Army

26 Oct 2021 6 4

Hu Xijin

Inserted 2 years ago

“The problem now is: The DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] authorities who dare not fight have now taken a long-term arrogant posture. They are gradually turning themselves into a political nail that the rising mainland must pull out. They claim they are at the forefront of the democracies to confront the mainland and are trying to serve as an outpost in the US' Indo-Pacific Strategy to contain China. They have also openly rejected the one China principle. Even their master, the US, has kept reiterating its commitment to the one-China principle, despite leaving some leeway to interpret the one China concept.”

Editor-in-chief of the hawkish mainland Chinese state-run tabloid Global Times

26 Oct 2021 7 5

Global Times

Inserted 2 years ago

“This is the true situation of the Taiwan Straits: First, the mainland doesn't want to fight a war. It has the goodwill to seek peaceful reunification and take war as the last resort. Second, the DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] dares not fight. They are bluffing, but know very well that the island's military forces are weak. They cannot withstand even a single blow. If there is a war, Taiwan will be surely defeated and collapse. Third, the US cannot fight. Should it not go into a war there, the Taiwan Straits will be Washington's leverage to contain the mainland. Otherwise, the Straits will become the grave of American soldiers. The US will suffer heavy losses instead of making gains.”

Editorial piece by Global Times

26 Oct 2021 7 5

Ma Xiaoguang

Inserted 2 years ago

“Tsai's speech advocates Taiwan secessionism and incite confrontation between the two sides of Taiwan Straits, distorting facts and holding the Taiwan public hostage in the name of consensus and solidarity, while colluding with foreign forces to provoke the mainland and seek secessionism. Our crackdown against Taiwan secessionists is targeting the DPP and secessionist forces, rather than Taiwan compatriots. The DPP cannot fool the Taiwan public or the international community by creating bad blood and obscuring the facts.”

Spokesperson for the China's Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council

10 Oct 2021 7 5

Wensheng Zhang

Inserted 2 years ago

“Picturing Taiwan as the front of the Western democratic and free world against the expansion of authoritarian in order to win the support and sympathy of the international community is a complete provocation. If the DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] authority continues such provocative acts, the mainland will have no choice but take it to the battlefield.”

Deputy dean of the Taiwan Research Institute at Xiamen University

10 Oct 2021 5 3

Austin Wang

Inserted 2 years ago

“Pro-DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] supporters appeared unperturbed by Biden, while those leaning centre or right towards the KMT were more sceptical of the US president's intentions towards Taiwan. They think that Biden's 'Taiwan agreement' is another evidence that Taiwan is just a chess piece on the chessboard, indicating that Taiwan has no say in its own future since the agreement is merely made between Xi and Biden. Moreover, Biden mentioned that his talk with Xi happened last month, but Taiwanese people all witnessed the sharp increase of incursions this week. So, it seems that the talk has no, if not negative, impact on the stability of the Taiwan Strait.”

Assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada

08 Oct 2021 11 4

Eric Chu

Inserted 2 years ago

“The KMT [Chinese Nationalist Party] will unite in an unprecedented manner, and we will fight for the pan-blue camp's decisive victory. We will fight for people's rights and resist the DPP's [Democratic Progressive Party] overbearing and aggressive behavior.”