Ma Ying-jeou attended the National Day Congress today.

(Photo by reporter Tu Jianrong)

[Reporter Chen Yufu/Taipei Report] Former President Ma Ying-jeou delivered a speech at the flag-raising ceremony held by the Kuomintang today, saying that President Tsai Ing-wen's statement that "Taiwan of the Republic of China" is the greatest consensus and that the two sides of the strait are not subordinate to each other is illegal and unconstitutional. worsened the situation on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Ma claimed that regardless of the constitution or the law, it is "very important" that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are "two regions" rather than two countries. President Tsai's actions not only fail to unite people's hearts, but will only stimulate the mainland and worsen the cross-strait situation.

In this regard, Chen Shimin, an associate professor of the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University, said in an interview today that when Ma Ying-jeou was president, he only talked about "regions", and he was laughed at as "district head". , Ma's argument is not the mainstream view of Taiwanese society.

Chen Shimin pointed out that President Tsai Ing-wen's cross-strait policy is to follow the Constitution of the Republic of China and the regulations on relations between the people across the Taiwan Strait, and there will be no provocations and surprises, and advocates maintaining the status quo.

President Tsai will not try to justify Taiwan independence, such as changing the Constitution of the Republic of China into the Constitution of the Republic of Taiwan, but President Tsai's refusal to do these things does not mean that the terms "free area" and "mainland area" will be used in accordance with the constitutional amendments. For the DPP government, there is no need to define the relationship between Taiwan and China as a "region".

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Chen Shimin emphasized that the amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of China and the regulations on cross-strait relations were revised more than 30 years ago and have a long history. , does not mean that the constitution uses "free areas" and "mainland areas", it means that President Tsai should use "regions" like the former President Ma, not countries.

He mentioned that the former President Ma and the Kuomintang advocated such a policy as a blue camp. He believed that the cross-strait positioning of "regions" and "regions" was not the mainstream view of Taiwanese society at present. There is no need to follow Ma Ying-jeou's argument of "region" and "region".