2023 Impression: How does Taiwan’s election affect mainland China? The mystery of the disappearance of high-ranking officials and the disappearance of teenagers; the ice and snow road closures and the common people are always on the road; the diesel locomotive fails to pull the high-speed train, what is the meaning? The mystery of Mrs. Li Keqiang’s name. (Provided by “Elite Forum”)
[The Epoch Times, February 10, 2024]The Year of Guimao has passed and the Year of Jiachen has arrived. NTDTV’s “Elite Forum” New Year special program will take stock of what happened in mainland China and Taiwan in the past year. Those impressive events, in a land of China that emphasizes the unity of nature and man, what profound implications do these events contain? What impact will it have on Chinese society in the future?
Taiwan’s election provides a way out for mainland China’s future
Famous political commentator Jiang Feng said in the “Elite Forum” that among the major events that happened in China in the 1990s, if Taiwan is an integral part of China (not the People’s Republic of China), I think the Taiwan presidential election was the biggest event. This is not only Taiwan’s own matter. The influence of Taiwan’s presidential election has transcended Taiwan itself and has reached the other side of the Taiwan Strait. It has a great impact on the situation in the entire mainland of China. In the past year, there have been too many uproarious things in mainland China. The people have been very miserable. There have been floods and fires. Until a year ago, there was still heavy ice and snow. It was a five-layered world of ice and fire. Life was very sad. Everyone is looking for hope and a way out. I think the Taiwan election actually hints at a direction for mainland China’s future actions. After all, Chinese culture is a harmonious and symbiotic culture. If we can give up political grievances, we can move forward under a common and beautiful vision.
So looking back on 2023, I think the first thing we should talk about is the Taiwan presidential election. No matter what the election result is, did you finally reach an ideal value in your mind and elect the ideal person in your mind? No matter what, I will I feel it is a model for the entire democratic world. Although Taiwan has not practiced democracy for a long time, it has been well integrated with the traditional Chinese culture, the spirit of harmonious coexistence, tolerance, and tolerance. Therefore, the entire election is more fair and harmonious. There is competition, excitement, and mutual disparagement. But after all, that kind of disparagement does not involve so many knives and traps. It seems to be relatively smooth. I think the characters finally selected are the voice of the people of Taiwan. Although Taiwan has not been involved in democracy for a long time, it has taught many old democratic countries, including the United States, a lesson on what is a truly pure democracy and how can it truly reflect the sentiments and sentiments of the people.
Li Keqiang’s fate reflects the common grievances of the Chinese people
Jiang Feng said in the “Elite Forum” that Li Keqiang’s departure at the end of 2023 is said by some to be the end of an era. They believe that a stronger authoritarian mechanism and a more stringent society are coming. In fact, I don’t entirely think so. I think it is actually a continuation of the Cultural Revolution, because as long as there is no real reflection on the Cultural Revolution, the entire Chinese society will continue the Cultural Revolution, including Li Keqiang.
I want to talk about Li Keqiang from another angle. There are many disputes about the cause of his death and the length of his life, including how he behaved during the June Fourth Movement. But I think the saying goes, a man’s passing leaves his name, and a wild goose’s passing leaves him behind. Voice. Li Keqiang’s reputation actually lies in the few sentences that everyone can remember. One is “People are doing it, God is watching, and the sky has eyes.” Another is “The Yellow River and the Yangtze River will not flow backwards.” There are 600 million people for one thousand yuan.” This reflects two points: one is that he still told a few truths, and the second is that he was feeling aggrieved until his death. In fact, he expressed the common grievances of the Chinese people. Qu, I have been feeling aggrieved from 1949 to now.
I think it is very interesting to look at Li Keqiang’s life and find another perspective on thinking. Li Keqiang and Li Zhongtang, the last famous official in the late Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang, are fellow villagers, both from Hefei, and both have the surname Li. We didn’t check the ancestral genealogy at that time to see if they were related? But this is a hint. Also, when Li Keqiang went to the countryside, he went to Fengyang, Anhui, where Zhu Yuanzhang started his career. So when Li Keqiang was born, he probably had some nobility, a little bit of the prime minister’s anger, and a little bit of the emperor’s anger. Of course, he didn’t have too much of the emperor’s anger, so the Tuanpai didn’t go up.
Let’s just talk about Li Keqiang’s grievances in his life. From this perspective, he is actually a representative of that generation. Regardless of Xi Jinping, Wang Qishan, or the so-called “Guardian of the Three Dynasties” Wang Huning, in fact, they all almost have the same fate. It was Mao Zedong’s era. They grew up in the era of struggle and were forcibly deprived of their right to education.
Nowadays, rural people go to the cities to work and earn some money. After improving their lives, they stay in the cities, floating in Beijing, Shanghai, etc. They came from the opposite direction at that time. They were city dwellers, even young people who grew up in relatively good cadre families and went to the countryside. If you think about it, there were no mobile phones in those days. My father, who was the director, gave me a call. It was no big deal. You can’t see anyone for half a year, a year or two. Just imagine if your parents throw their 13 or 14-year-old child into the countryside. Does it hurt your parents? If you don’t know whether your child is alive or dead, you can imagine how uncomfortable it is for your parents. Their family ties are cut off, and your children also lose the opportunity for education and the love of their parents. Like Xi Jinping’s current performance, this is a general lack of education and emotion among a generation. This is the trauma that this group of people will bring to the entire society when they become Chinese leaders.
The end-of-year weird “Bear Jokes” are popular in the United States
Shi Shan, senior editor and chief writer of The Epoch Times, said in the “Elite Forum” that these things Jiang Feng said are very true. It is difficult for Chinese or foreigners to understand this emotion and feeling. It is very difficult to understand, so they are making judgments. China’s political and economic trends and development, when judging the way Chinese people think about problems, they are biased.
Speaking of these things, I remembered another thing. At the end of last year, a Chinese cartoon suddenly appeared in China, which was very popular among American children and teenagers. This cartoon was of course made in China. It basically copied a dialogue from the movie “A Better Tomorrow”, the movie by Chow Yun-fat. The content is actually very interesting, which means that it is looked down upon by others. Now I finally have a chance. I I’ve been waiting for three years. (Content of Xiong’s joke: I have my own principles, and I don’t want to be stepped on by others all my life. You think I’m a beggar. I’ve been waiting for three years just for a chance to get a chance. But I don’t want to prove myself. It’s amazing, I want to tell people that I must get back what I lost.)
“The Epoch Times” editor-in-chief Guo Jun said in the “Elite Forum” that it is said that the first people to popularize this film were American children, middle school students and college students. In fact, they did not know what was said in it. My son (a young man who grew up in the United States) asked me many times, what is my mother talking about? Although American young people don’t understand the words, they just keep laughing. They can all feel the strong emotions expressed by this cartoon character. My son forwarded it to a friend. It was strange that I didn’t know what he said, but I could totally feel what he meant. Another point is that American children think this character is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
Later, someone translated it into English, and it became very popular among American children. It was played all over the circle of friends, and now it has been made into various products. It is said that cakes with this cartoon character have been released. You must know that American children do not care about foreign countries, let alone the leaders of other countries, so this phenomenon is very interesting. This joke is a line from the Hong Kong movie “A Better Tomorrow”. The character played by Chow Yun-fat said that he had been looked down upon by others, but finally became famous and wanted to take back what belongs to him. Speaking of which, this is indeed very, very close to Xi Jinping’s mentality. That kind of emotion, that kind of strong contagion, where he is angry, inferior, and extremely strong, is indeed very expressive.
The inside story of the disappearance of high-ranking officials and the disappearance of young people is very scary.
Independent TV producer Li Jun said in the “Elite Forum” that there is a word that is particularly popular in 2023, which is “disappeared” or “missing”. In the past, ordinary people and ordinary officials disappeared, but in the past year, two ministers have disappeared, Qin Gang has also disappeared, and Li Shangfu has also disappeared. In the past, officials would reappear after disappearing for a period of time, but now when ministers at the level of State Councilor disappear, they just disappear. This phenomenon has not been seen by everyone for so many years. No one knows whether this phenomenon will usher in a new model for Chinese politics in the future. In this situation, it may be difficult to say whether Qin Gang will live or die. There are various rumors now that he may not have been able to bear the torture and died, or he felt hopeless and committed suicide, so I think the possibility of his survival is very high. Smaller. This kind of sudden disappearance should be said to be a feature of 2023.
Of course, it’s not just high-ranking officials like this who are missing. There are particularly many young people who are missing now. In the case of Hu Xinyu in China last year, a young man disappeared and could not be found for several months. In the end, he was said to have committed suicide and hung on a tree for a month without anyone seeing him. Who would believe this? No one believed it. So at the end of the year, I saw many parents holding photos of their missing children. It was said that there were four to five hundred photos, and they posted them on a motorcade. This actually reflects the shady situation of China’s organ transplant industry, which is very shady, but now everyone is starting to pay attention to it, so I think if there is a hot word in 2023, “disappearance” is one of them.
Shishan said in the “Elite Forum” that the missing child is no longer a child, the missing baby is no longer a baby, and the evil has far exceeded that thing. The missing people now are all young people between the ages of thirteen and twenty. Everyone knows why these people are missing, and these young people are particularly prone to getting into trouble. Just go to the hospital for a minor illness, and then it is announced that he is dead, and then it becomes a matter of donating organs. In the past, Chinese people did not believe in live organ harvesting, but now the whole society believes that this is an ironclad fact. The Epoch Times was the first to report on organ harvesting from living people. When The Epoch Times reported it more than ten years ago, many people couldn’t believe it, but now step by step it has been confirmed that this is indeed the case. So this thing is indeed very surprising.
People are always on the road due to ice and snow road closures
Guo Jun said in the “Elite Forum” that February 4 this year is the Beginning of Spring, which means that the second year has begun. Before it was the Guimao Year, and after the Beginning of Spring is the Jiachen Year. At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, there were two phenomena that were very interesting and symbolic.
The first one is the heavy snowstorm. Thousands of vehicles were blocked in Hubei, Henan, and Anhui, which are the central regions of China. Do you think what this means? There is a saying that we are very familiar with, “Always on the road.” Beijing always says this sentence, but now everyone feels that we are always on the road. Now it has been applied to ordinary people, and they can no longer walk on the road.
The second thing is also related to the heavy snow. Many high-speed rail wires were wrapped in ice and snow, resulting in poor contact and power transmission failure. The high-speed rail could not move. Then the authorities sent many diesel locomotives to pull the high-speed rail trains. Some netizens in China have said that this phenomenon has symbolic significance. The first is that high-speed trains have become low-speed trains. The speed of high-speed trains is nearly 300 kilometers per hour, while the speed of diesel locomotives is 80 kilometers per hour, so it suddenly slows down to a quarter of its original speed. The second symbol is using old tools and old methods to implement new technologies. Now that China’s economic growth has reached a certain stage, the entire system should have been gradually improved. Now the CCP is going backwards and is using the same methods of the Cultural Revolution to control the country, which is a bit like using an internal combustion engine train or a steam engine train to pull this high-speed train.
The mystery behind Mrs. Li Keqiang’s name change is deep
Jiang Feng said in the “Elite Forum” that Li Keqiang’s wife’s name is Cheng Hong, but she was actually named Cheng Hong at first. We all know that in that era, girls were called red a lot, red country, red flag, red revolution, she was this red. But later she changed it to a rainbow. There is actually a big reason for this.
Cheng Hong is very low-key. After she went to teach English at Capital University of Foreign Trade, many people didn’t know that she was the wife of the Prime Minister. So what is she pursuing? In fact, she admired Thoreau, an American writer, most throughout her life. Thoreau was both a writer and a philosopher. Later, when Cheng Hong had the opportunity to go to the United States, she immediately went to visit the scenic spot where Thoreau wrote “Walden Pond”. Later, she talked about this matter in many lectures, which is widely known to everyone. “Walden” expresses naturalism, respect for the environment and nature, individuality, and so on. But in fact, the writer Cheng Hong likes, Thoreau, is also a philosopher. He also has one of the most famous works, which is a philosophical work. , called “On Civil Disobedience”. Cheng Hong likes this philosophical work, which cannot be made public in China’s political environment. What is the central idea of this work? His first words were to express that the best government is one which knows nothing, and is the government which the people would most like to have before they are ready. It was he who gave the right of choice and the final decision to the people.
Therefore, Cheng Hong’s transformation from red in the red world to rainbow in the rainbow world, to the rainbow of free pursuit, has a profound meaning. I wonder how much impact Cheng Hong’s thoughts, feelings, and pursuits will have on Li Keqiang? Li Keqiang is willing to tell more truths and expose his grievances, but he has many grand plans and aspirations buried deeply in his heart. This is what I want to say is a potential thing in 2024. We can predict a bad downward trend, but in which direction will this impulse and this throbbing in the people’s hearts develop? This is a powerful unknown. Changing the red of the red country to the rainbow of the rainbow world, I think it has this deep meaning.
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2024-02-10 04:13:37
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