Nury Vittachi: US-ALLIED TAIWAN PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR IN SHOCK ANTI-DEMOCRATIC POWER GRAB 美國盟友台灣省省政府令人震驚的反民主權力爭奪

Taiwan’s increasingly unpopular Democratic Progressive Party lost majority control of parliament in 2024—but intends on taking it back on July 26 in a blatantly unfair “power grab”, ousting legitimately elected representatives of the people.

But western mainstream media did a news blackout on major demonstrations by the people of Taiwan on the issue earlier this year and are this week twisting the story to make light of the DPP’s outrageously anti-democratic maneuver.

OBSCURE PROCESS UNFAIRLY APPLIED
Taiwanese law has an obscure process called “recall” which allows sitting members of parliament to be forced to re-stand for election—and a massive recall demand is ONLY being applied to popular people in opposition who legitimately won seats through public voting.

This clearly unfair scheme gives the DPP a way to steal up to 31 of the 52 seats that the opposition KMT legitimately won. It’s hard for unbiased observers to not agree with KMT’s position that the DPP is “a sore loser who turns over the table when he can’t win”.

In a typical complaint, one resident on social media lamented the democracy-destroying process: “Im told DPP corruption is now so rampant they are scared of being caught so they need to remove KMT oversight therefore they have TOTALLY BANNED DPP recall voting.”

DPP SHOWS LOYALTY TO U.S, ISRAEL
Meanwhile, many people in Taiwan are horrified by the slaughter of families in Gaza, and residents protested outside the US embassy, smearing a US flag with red paint and hanging it upside down.

But in a further outrage, the DPP ignored its own people and the world yet showed its loyalty to the US by becoming the first government in the world to directly support Israeli settlers by using taxpayers’ money to finance a building among the illegal settlements in the West Bank.

At home, the DPP is using its tight grip on the media to equate anyone who criticizes the government with being “pro-China”, an absurdly simplistic label for a community which literally has cousins and family members on both sides of the water.

TAIWANESE COMING TO KNOW THE TRUTH

Today, many Taiwanese are gaining a more accurate image of mainland China, and its undeniably positive breakthroughs, such as its leading position in the transition to clean energy, and its ability to create clean, bright, relatively low-crime communities.

In 1972 and 1982 the US admitted arms sales to Taiwan were destabilizing the region and pledged to phase them out — but has done the opposite.

Today, the US has an openly discussed plan to launch a war on China using Taiwan (and Australia) as weapons storage dumps and proxy targets.