Ko’s Matsu argument irrationalBy Chin Ching 秦靖Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman and presidential candidate Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) tries to give the impression that he has sympathy with the deep-green side of Taiwanese politics. Ko seeks to use this argument to distort the green camp’s call for “resisting China, protecting Taiwan” (抗中保台), and thereby ingratiating himself with the blue camp to attract their votes. Many Taiwanese believe in China’s Matsu and Guan Gong, the Chinese god of war, and that is an expression of freedom of religion. In that case, how can China’s Matsu and Guan Gong be the CCP’s fellow travelers, as Ko says? These fellow travelers of China always assume unilaterally that the Democratic Progressive Party government has been provoking Beijing.

Source: Taipei Times July 16, 2023 18:34 UTC