On May 20, 2021, President Tsai Ing-wen made a low-key visit to the Ministry of National Defense on the first anniversary of her re-election and asked the military to be on guard against Chinese cognitive warfare.
In Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen has just reached the first anniversary of her re-election as president. In the tense political atmosphere, a number of polls have shown a decline in her popularity, especially in the economy and cross-strait relations, which are not trusted by the public. On Thursday (20), the first anniversary of her re-election, Tsai Ing-wen did not have any public events, choosing to visit the Ministry of National Defense to pay attention to the military’s work on epidemic prevention, and she asked the military to prevent the PLA from circling Taiwan and being attacked by Chinese “fake messages” during the epidemic. (By Chung Kwong-ching, Taipei)
During her low-key visit to the Ministry of National Defense, Tsai Ing-wen asked the military to cooperate fully with the epidemic prevention work, with chemical soldiers responsible for disinfection work and military hospitals supporting fast screening. The company also reminded the military to maintain a state of readiness to prevent the Chinese from taking advantage of the situation.
I want to remind you that although we have an epidemic, we still have to maintain our combat readiness and stay at our posts,” Tsai said. While the nation is focused on preventing the epidemic, the communist planes and ships are still intruding from time to time. We should closely monitor the surrounding sea and air space and deal with them properly, and we should be more vigilant, maintain combat readiness and stay at our posts to protect national security. In addition, recently, because of the epidemic, there are many false messages that disturb the morale of the people and have ulterior motives. This is a cognitive battle and a stress test. I would like to ask you to be vigilant and respond properly.
Presidential spokesman Zhang Dunhan said in a news release that due to the seriousness of the recent epidemic, the epidemic prevention level in Taiwan has also been raised to the third level of alert, President Tsai Ing-wen has recently focused on work related to epidemic prevention, so no public activities are scheduled today.
While Tsai is busy with the epidemic prevention work, several polls show that her popularity has dropped significantly.
According to a TVBS poll, 43 percent of the 882 respondents were satisfied with the handling of cross-strait relations, while 47 percent were dissatisfied with it; and a Yahoo poll with more than 40,000 participants still shows that 19.3 percent were dissatisfied with cross-strait policies, while 14 percent were dissatisfied with the economy.
As for the poll showing that respondents are dissatisfied with Tsai’s cross-strait policy, pollster Dai Li-an believes that according to the national political polls he conducts every month for Belle Epoque, people are still most concerned with livelihood issues. But observing the government’s heated statements on cross-strait relations, it can be seen that the authorities have noticed a change in public sentiment.
The logic behind it all is still the same: to join the United States and resist China. The government’s opinion polls or popularity is relatively low, it will continue to emphasize to the public, China to carry out cognitive warfare to the public to beware. To a certain extent, it is also to consolidate the prestige of the government or the DPP to win the approval of the public. The public, of course, does not care that much about this kind of cognitive warfare, but the government, relatively speaking, wants to help the government take precautions.
The internet poll figures often fluctuate widely, and the participants are not screened by relevant survey methods, so they have reservations about the certainty of the survey results.
The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. The Internet polls are relatively speaking, because he is open to everyone to fill in, whether he has repeatedly filled in these, usually more difficult to verify. So in the past, like online polls or these, sometimes it was easier to be spoon-fed because of the desire to influence other people’s views.
In the TVBS poll, 41 percent of the people were satisfied with Tsai’s administration, 44 percent were dissatisfied, and 14 percent did not express an opinion. People’s satisfaction with Tsai’s administration has dropped 20 percentage points compared to a year ago, and the percentage of dissatisfaction has increased by nearly 20%. In Yahoo’s Chimera poll, 84.4 percent of the people are dissatisfied with Tsai’s administration, while 13.8 percent are satisfied.
The KMT posted an article on a social networking site criticizing Tsai’s five years in office for five major failures, saying that Taiwan is facing a serious epidemic ravaging the country, and while the entire population is working hard to fight the epidemic, they have to face: lack of water, lack of electricity, lack of vaccines, as well as mob rule and food safety breakdowns.
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