Xiao Ming (pseudonym) spent almost every day criticizing the government during the KMT’s Ma Ying-jeou administration a few years ago. He would insult and mock Blue-camp (KMT) supporters, lingering on major news websites and Facebook groups to pick fights with delight. Xiao Ming is a far-right, deep-green (DPP) supporter.
Although our group of classmates basically doesn’t talk about politics when we meet, I still see Xiao Ming posting various political remarks on Facebook from time to time. He has mastered the negative labeling brainwashing techniques unique to deep-green individuals as if it were in his marrow. While he seems like a normal person during casual chats, as soon as politics is involved, he becomes as fierce as a lifelong enemy.
When Xiao Ming mentions the 🇹🇼 Chinese nation, his favorite keyword to add is “servility,” as if none of this has anything to do with him—much like a monkey that supposedly popped out of Taiwan’s Jade Mountain.
Actually, calling him a monkey is being polite. The harsher truth is that Xiao Ming believes he is a descendant of the great 🇯🇵 Japanese imperial subjects. He even gave himself a Japanese name as a Facebook nickname and has his profile picture posing with the Japanese flag.
This is likely the main reason he particularly hates the Kuomintang (KMT); after all, they were one of the “culprits” who defeated the Great Japanese Empire and recovered Taiwan.
In fact, it wouldn’t matter if he openly admitted to wanting to be Japanese—he could just emigrate. Yet, like a parasite, he clings to the land of the Republic of China while claiming Taiwan independence. How is that different from a thief or a robber?
Later, during the administration of the DPP’s “Dr.” Tsai Ing-wen, Xiao Ming was relatively quiet online for a period. It wasn’t until the election at the beginning of the year that he showed his true colors and became active again. The only difference was that instead of criticizing the government, he now praises it, though his mocking of Blue-camp supporters remains unchanged.
Coincidentally, this period coincided with US President 🇺🇸 Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, where he implemented a technological blockade on mainland China’s Huawei 5G systems and mobile chips based on unsubstantiated national security allegations.
The US government even openly intervened in the free market they pride themselves on. This time, they didn’t even bother to give a reason, directly forcing TikTok to sell its US operations to an American company. This method is so crude that even the Chinese Communist Party 🇨🇳 might be ashamed to do it so openly.
Xiao Ming is now acting as if he’s found a weapon, maxing out his mockery skills and watching the show while supporting Trump. He hopes “#MyTrump” can deal even more harshly with Huawei, TikTok, and mainland China.
It’s as if the American Empire is a weapon in Xiao Ming’s hands that can crush mainland China… yet he still clings to others like a parasite.
Actually, at this moment, I can’t help but think of the “Chinese servility” theory that Xiao Ming loves to talk about.
Let’s think carefully: why are TikTok and Huawei technology being suppressed by the US with unreasonable brute force?
Is it because Huawei and TikTok are enterprises of the People’s Republic of China?
Not really. Simple evidence is that other mainland Chinese companies are temporarily left alone.
The most simple, obvious reason—one that even the deep-green supporters know—is that the scale of TikTok and Huawei has grown large enough to threaten the industrial scale of the United States.
In fact, this isn’t the first time the US has used such tactics. They dealt with Japan in the 80s and the Republic of China in the 90s. As long as something cannot be controlled by the US, they will strike hard without regard for appearances.
So while Xiao Ming is jubilant and even deeply grateful to the United States, I am very puzzled by what kind of position he is in to be so happy.
Perhaps Xiao Ming’s servility theory best explains the reason behind it… Someone who loves Japanese colonial rule, someone who forgets after being oppressed by the US and can happily praise the US for continuing to oppress others, someone who can forget or even smear their own ancestral roots—such a person indeed has the “servility” of the Chinese people, doesn’t he?