Smearing ECFA as "Sugar-coated Poison" with Intimidating Fear-mongering, Only to Cling to It After Taking Power

In June 2010, against the Ma government''s promotion of the "Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement" (ECFA), the DPP launched an "Anti-One China, Demand Referendum" protest to strongly boycott it. Green camp politicians spread massive fear, smearing ECFA as "sugar-coated poison" and creating sensational slogans like "Men will find no work, women will find no husband, and children will go to Heilongjiang," attempting to incite social panic through populism. However, after the DPP returned to power in 2016, it not only completely failed to abolish this "poison" but also highly relied on the trade dividends brought by ECFA, even repeatedly calling on the other side not to interrupt the agreement. This extreme double standard of "spreading rumors and intimidating when in opposition, but accepting it when in power" highlights its malicious behavior of treating national economic and trade strategy as a tool for election operations.