Li Ao annouces he will join the crowded taipei mayor elections
I think most people on this website knows Li Ao. So I won’t explain his background. Probably we’ll have a upcoming article about past “dangwai” people that have left the DPP, and the historical background of the “green” party. Anyways Li Ao has announced he will run for election of taipei mayor race. James Soong has also announced that he will run as well. What will this mean for the pan-blue voters? In my opinion not good. Li Ao is good at making people look bad, but he has no administrative experience and offers no concrete plans. But in many ways Li Ao understands the political landscape better than any other “blue” politician. He is right in saying that Taipei more than any other city in Taiwan is neither blue or green but cares more about policy. So that puts in question what are the policy differences between the blue and the green. We already know that blue supports Republic of China, and the green supports creating a Republic of Taiwan. I will try to make a list of the policy differences between pan-blue and the pan-green parties. Please feel free to comment on this list
pan-green:
- support independent taiwan
- claims to be more democratic because they fought for the democratization of Republic of China
- less economic and cultural ties with mainland
- against nuclear power generation
- for the defense spending bill
- environmentally more friendly
pan-blue
- support Republic of China
- seen as less democratic, has the baggage of dictorial rule of Chiang Kai-shek
- closer economic and cultural ties with mainland
- for nuclear power
- seen usually as having better administrative abilities
- against defense spending bill
So looking at the above list……………….it can be said that really the only thing in politics in taiwan is national identity, nothing else. My feeling is that people are sick and tired of it. Pan-blue needs to show a comprehensive agenda and sell it to the people in taiwan if they want to do well in the upcoming elections.
