Oppressive China At It Again
Taiwan President Tsai’s stop at a bakery is opposed by the CCP
Once again, The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has imposed its Orwellian nonsense, political correctness, and propaganda on citizens outside its borders. According to a recent report from Taiwan’s Central News Agency, during a stopover in Los Angeles to Paraguay for a State Visit, President Tsai Ing-wen visited a 85℃ Bakery and signed a pillow for an employee. Chinese Netizens, of whom a majority are products of CCP brainwashing in nationalistic rhetoric, quickly flooded the 85℃ Weibo page, labelled the company as Pro-Taiwanese Independence, and threatened to boycott its businesses across China.
Unfortunately, the company reacted by kowtowing to the CCP and issuing a Beijing-esque statement. The statement mentioned two key pieces of Chinese propaganda, the claim that “two sides of the Taiwan Strait are one big family” (political propaganda by the CCP) and the so-called “1992 Consensus”. The 92 Consensus is a fictional “tacit” agreement between both the KMT and CCP which states that there is“One China” and both sides are free to interpret what One China means.
Since the inauguration of Democratic Progressive Party President Tsai Ing-wen in May 2016, the CCP has been conducting political, military, economic, and diplomatic oppression of Taiwan in its attempt to force the Tsai Administration to toe Beijing’s Unification line by accepting its “One China” principle. The 85℃ Bakery situation is not actually new. It has been a recurring theme since President Tsai was inaugurated. In fact, in the past year Beijing’s oppression of Taiwan has intensified.
One shining example is the Chinese Government demand to 44 foreign airlines, including U.S. based American Airlines, United, and Delta, to only refer to Taiwan as a make believe province of the People’s Republic Of China. This led to a strongly worded response from the White House, calling such actions “Orwellian nonsense” and “part of a growing trend by the Chinese Communist Party to impose its political views on American citizens and private companies.”
The CCP is an authoritarian, expansionist, and nationalistic government that clearly does not respect human rights, democracy, or the rule of law. China wants to use its financial clout, market, and disinformation to dictate and control political thinking abroad. This is extremely dangerous, unprecedented, and a threat to all democracies everywhere. We, as Americans who strongly advocate for Taiwan and U.S. values, absolutely cannot allow CCP United Front tactics to succeed. If this Orwellian nonsense is not stopped and countered, the CCP will not hesitate to impose its authoritarian system and political ideas again, not on just Taiwanese, but on us in the United States as well.
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