AMERICA’S MAN IN TAIWAN, Lai Ching-te, moved to arrest internet celebrity Chen Chih-han on Monday. 美國在台人賴清德週一採取行動逮捕網路名人陳志漢.

Popular Youtuber Chen “has been referred to prosecutors for investigation over remarks” he made on Sunday, according to the island province’s Criminal Investigations Bureau.

Everyone knows why the gym-owner turned star is in the ruling party’s cross-hairs.

GULAG NARRATIVE
Chen this year flipped the “China is a giant gulag” narrative by livestreaming three visits to mainland China—revealing to the people of Taiwan what it’s really like, how people really live there, and how quickly the country is developing.

In doing so, Chen tapped into a growing awakening on the island. The US-allied ruling Democratic Progressive Party relied on years of anti-China fearmongering to stay in power.

But with economic and political problems, and growing realization that mainstream media cannot be trusted, that no longer works.

A failed DPP operation to throw out representatives democratically elected by the people this year turned out to be the last straw.

POSSIBLE INCITEMENT

Chen, in his battle for the people of Taiwan to get a more truthful narrative about their own region, has often criticized US-allied President Lai—and his latest comments, during a livestream discussion on Sunday, went too far, the government claims.

Chen allegedly made an “off-with-his-head” comment about President Lai, which, if interpreted literally, could be seen as incitement to violence, prosecutors said.

The move shocked many people in Taiwan. The government has long pushed the line that Taiwan is more like the west than the rest of Asia, because “we can curse our leaders”.

But he missed the point that freedom to curse the leadership is of paramount importance in western countries, while being low on the list of priorities for people in Asia.

NOT EVEN TRUE
And besides that, it’s not even true.

When a Taiwan TV channel called CTI dared to suggest the community should cultivate a peaceful, positive relationship with the mainland, the DPP silenced it by refusing to renew its broadcast license.

Staff at Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a fake press index financed by the notorious CIA-NED and George Soros’ political meddling unit, looked the other way, as they are paid to do.

And now we see the ridiculous result.

Taiwan, where it’s risky to criticize the local authorities, is rated highly free by the morally corrupt RSF. Hong Kong, where columnists and the public criticize the government every day, is rated close to the bottom of the list.

The dishonest RSF’s CIA programming has never been so clear.

But will the widely criticized Lai Ching-te dare to silence the wildly popular Chen Chih-Han?

In the past, the DPP simply followed US State Department instructions, relying on fearmongering by local and international press to keep the people of Taiwan in line.

But if fearmongering no long works, everything changes.