林保華

An ironic group to fight the CCP

By Paul Lin 林保華

Sunday, Jun 28, 2009, Page 8
‘The pan-green camp is embroiled in infighting, and the man on the street probably says that both sides in this party dispute are wrong. This has had a negative impact on the pan-green camp’s reputation and therefore benefits the KMT.’
 

 
A few of my friends and I have established an anti-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization.

The idea was proposed by Professor Lee Hsiao-feng (李筱峰) last year before Chinese envoy Chen Yunlin (陳雲林) visited Taiwan. We have called it the Taiwan Youth Anti-Communist Corps (台灣青年反共救國團). Aside from being ironic, the name captures our goal of focusing on Taiwanese youth.

The name is similar to the China Youth Anti-Communist National Salvation Corps (中國反共青年救國團, “China Youth Corps” for short).

That organization, however, deleted “anti-communist national salvation” from its title in 2000.

We are, therefore, two completely different groups, but it is ours that maintains the original anti-CCP spirit.

Dictator Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) once used the slogan “We shall defeat communism and build the nation.” I agree with this slogan.

First, the communists must be defeated before Taiwanese can secure their right to self-determination, as this is the only way we can build the nation.

What type of nation we will establish is an issue to be dealt with through democratic procedures once Taiwan’s territory has been secured.

We cannot enter into extensive arguments at this time about what type of country to establish, as this will lead us into the CCP trap of alienating Taiwanese from each other and weakening their strength in opposing the CCP.

Given Taiwan’s critical situation, opposition to the CCP is our greatest common feature. We must come together and consolidate as much power as possible to set up the broadest possible anti-CCP and anti-unification front.

President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) surrender to the CCP, his ineptitude, his close relationship to big business and distance from the ordinary person are no guarantee that those who love Taiwan will be able to throw him out of office and establish rule by the people.

This is because we get involved in too many unnecessary arguments that sap our strength.

Ma’s prestige is fading, but that of the Democratic Progressive Party is not increasing in its place.

The pan-green camp is embroiled in infighting, and the man on the street probably says that both sides in this party dispute are wrong. This has had a negative impact on the pan-green camp’s reputation and therefore benefits the KMT.

This is not to say that we shouldn’t solve the problems we face, but we must be clear about two kinds of contradiction: Within the green camp, disputes should be calmly debated without generating enemies and diminishing the power within our ranks.

In the same vein, it breaks my heart to see how competition between the pan-blue and pan-green camps has turned into a vicious struggle, because this only benefits the CCP.

Only a few people have sold out Taiwan out of personal interest, while the majority of Taiwanese, including the majority of pan-blue-camp supporters, are not benefiting from their leader’s surrender to China.

For example, issues such as the large amount of Taiwanese investment in China, Chinese students and the importing of cheap labor to compete with Taiwanese workers affect everyone, even those who lean toward the pan-blue camp.

We therefore must work harder to make them aware of these facts.

The CCP used to have a revolutionary song that went “When the East Wind blows and the drums of war sound, who will fear whom in this world?”

In recent years, there have been many reports of assassinations and beatings of police and officials.

In China, it is easy to mobilize tens of thousands of people, disseminate ideas via the Internet and gain widespread support.

To uphold social stability, the CCP has made it compulsory to install content-control software known as Green Dam Youth Escort on computers.

This will place controls on information accessible via the Web.

This shows that the Chinese public serves the CCP and not the other way around.

If the peoples of Taiwan and China can unite in opposition against the CCP, then it can be brought down.

Let us come together and call on every Taiwanese to oppose the CCP as we inaugurate this anti-communist group.

Paul Lin is a political commentator.

TRANSLATED BY DREW CAMERON
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Tsai joins anti-communist league

STAFF WRITER
Sunday, Jun 28, 2009, Page 3

The seats reserved for Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, President Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung, from left to right, are left empty at the inaugural ceremony of the Taiwan Youth Anti-Communist Corps yesterday after the trio failed to show up. PHOTO: CHIEN JUNG-FONG, TAIPEI TIMES

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday joined the newly established Taiwan Youth Anti-Communist Corps (台灣青年反共救國團).

“The establishment of the Taiwan Anti-Communist Youth Corps highlighted the fact that the Chinese Nationalist Party [KMT] owes Taiwanese an explanation for why it was anti-Communist before but is now leaning toward China to such a degree? Why such a turn-around? Where is Taiwan’s destiny under the KMT’s radical change?” Tsai asked, making a reference to the China Youth Anti-Communist Nation Salvation Corps (中國青年反共救國團) established by then-premier Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國) on Oct. 31, 1952.

China Youth Anti-Communist Nation Salvation Corps upheld anti-communist doctrines and organized military training camps for high school, college and university students.

It later changed its name to China Youth Nation Salvation Corps (中國青年救國團) on Oct. 31, 2000, and transformed itself into a private organization aimed at guiding youth in their growth and development.

Tsai said yesterday that when she was a college student, she had joined a hiking program sponsored by the China Youth Anti-Communist Nation Salvation Corps.

Political commentator Paul Lin (林保華), who established the new group, said its aim was to help Taiwanese uphold the nation’s sovereignty by gaining a clear understanding of China’s nature.

“It can be confusing for some to compare the China Youth Anti-Communist Nation Salvation Corps of fifty years ago to today’s Taiwan Youth Anti-Communist Corps,” said former premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌), who also attended yesterday.

“At the time, the KMT popularized slogans about ‘terminating the evil communists,’ but it now leans toward China,” Su said. “That confuses Taiwanese.”

ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY RICH CHANG

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