Zheng Weibin

Since the Kuomintang lost Taiwan's ruling power in 2000, each new party chairman has announced that he will reform the Kuomintang.This is the case, and Ma Ying -jeou is like this, and the same is true of Zhu Lilun.Today, Jiang Qichen of the Mesozoic generation is no exception.

On March 7, the Kuomintang Party Chairman made up the election. Jiang Qichen won with a vote rate of nearly 70 %, defeating Hao Longbin as the new party chairman.Jiang Qichen and Hao Longbin are nearly 20 years old. The victory of Jiang Qichen is undoubtedly that grassroots party members expect that he can lead the Kuomintang to completely innovate.

However, Wu Dunyi, who resigned from the election failed in January in January, has only been in his term of only one year. In such a short period of time, how can Jiang Qichen realize the three major reforms in his mouth?During the campaign, Jiang Qichen clarified the political opinions of the Kuomintang RedeSign (redesigned the Kuomintang), which was clearly described as the three major Kuomintang (redesigned the Kuomintang).

Can Jiang Qichen do it?Although the Kuomintang is already a century -old shop, after all, although Zhou is old, his life is new.Since the founding of the Kuomintang, it is not a record that has not been regained by reform.

For example, when the Kuomintang soldiers defeated the mainland and retreated to Taiwan at that time, it was also a life hanging line.Since then, through the economic construction of Jiang Jingguo's main administration, the Taiwan economy has further taken off and led the four Asian dragons.

Similarly, after the Kuomintang lost its ruling power in 2000, Lien Chan boldly opened the precedent of direct selection of the Kuomintang Party Chairman, which also caused the Kuomintang to enter the new era of democracy within the party.

At this time, because the Kuomintang was in the wild, there was no heavy governance pressure, so he could give up the arrogance of the past governance and carefully examined the reasons for the loss of governing power.At that time, Lien Chan reformed the party affairs internally, streamlined personnel, and transformed a huge but rigid party affairs machine. On the other hand, he bravely took the ice -breaking tour.Leaders' meetings bring national republican solutions and achieve five common visions.

This has also opened the era of the Kuomintang's right to take over cross -strait calls in Taiwan.The maintenance of cross -strait relations is basically controlled by the Kuomintang.

However, the dilemma of the Kuomintang in Taiwan can be said to be both cross -strait relations and defeat of cross -strait relations.First of all, the development of cross -strait relations, especially during the administration of Ma Ying -jeou, the cross -strait economic and trade exchanges flourished, forming a huge chain of interest relationships.

These interest chains are mainly controlled by the Kuomintang senior management, forming a family -based political and economic pattern.On the one hand, these families have obtained a lot of dividends from cross -strait economic and trade exchanges, and on the other hand, they also control within the party's affairs, making it difficult for grass -roots party members to develop upward.This is also a situation that caused the proportion of the Kuomintang's talents today and the proportion of party members under the age of 40.

Therefore, the image of the Kuomintang's party is getting worse and worse, and it is almost impossible to obtain the recognition of young ethnic groups. It can be said that it has lost a whole generation.It is these factors that have led to the outbreak of the Sunflower Movement in 2014 that the development of cross -strait development encountered major setbacks.

In this wave, the Cross -Strait discussion of the Kuomintang has also suffered difficulties within Taiwan.The first is that the Kuomintang's one -China table and the Republic of China cannot be recognized by the mainland, so that the Kuomintang frequently encountered the DPP question when explaining cross -strait relations in Taiwan.Second, the Democratic Progressive Party links one country, two systems and 1992 consensus, and further questioned the Kuomintang's proposition, and is not accepted and recognized by the people of Taiwan.

Cross -strait relations may be discussed that it has become a hard -to -speak pain in the Kuomintang.During the campaign between Jiang Qichen and Hao Longbin, both of them could not be separated from the existing cross -strait discussions involving this related topic. They could only turn in the future of the Constitution of the 1992 Consensus One Constitution.

The problem is that these languages can no longer convince Taiwanese people.This is why the Kuomintang could no longer use cross -strait issues to combat the DPP during the 2020 presidential election of Taiwan.The anti -China Dead State of the DPP defended the theme of elections such as the Republic of China and so on, and obtained more response, which led Tsai Ing -wen to set the highest voting record of Taiwan's direct election in 1996.

In this way, how will Jiang Qichen regain cross -strait relations and re -position the Kuomintang's party line?

This is the case of the party's route, and the government reform within the party is not easy.In addition to the many old -fashioned elders in the Kuomintang, the Kuomintang's previous party reforms that have been opened since Jiang Jingguo have not been smooth.In addition to the adjustment of party machines, systems, and structural adjustments, these reforms are more of the localization transformation of the Kuomintang.

In the 1970s, as mainland China gradually replaced Taiwan internationally, Chiang Kai -shek and Chiang Kai -shek had to consider the reality that the Kuomintang existed in Taiwan for a long time.As a result, when Jiang Jingguo's main administration, the localization of the Kuomintang's localization gradually began, and a large number of Taiwanese provincial elites were absorbed into the party system.

In this localization process, the biggest problem is how to achieve connecting with the Chinese Kuomintang of the Republic of China with Taiwan.It can be said that to this day, the Kuomintang still has not found a way out.This is why its cross -strait discussions cannot be escaped from existing policies.

This issue was particularly obvious when the party building of the party was conducted during the Ma Ying -jeou period.Ma Ying -jeou deliberately pleased the local voters and tried to be a national president. However, Ma Ying -jeou still could not resolve the above -mentioned contradictions, which caused the Kuomintang to be discussed in one discussion and lost evidence.

The Chinese concept that Ma Ying -jeou adhered to, in fact, was increasingly responded in Taiwan, and even called the last Chinese by the media.

In the past, the different identity of the provinces and the people of foreign provinces became an important influencing factor in the election of Taiwan. After experiencing multiple elections, the dust finally settled and the abyss of history.Judging from the election of January 2020 and the epidemic, the identity of the Taiwanese has become the only identity of Taiwan's identity.

In this way, Jiang Qichen and the Kuomintang will have to find the positioning and routes that be able to connect the Republic of China and Taiwan in order to be recognized by mainstream public opinion and youth ethnic groups.

It is worth noting that from the Republic of China of Lee Teng -hui in Taiwan, to the Republic of China of Chen Shui -bian, it is Taiwan, and to the Republic of China in the mouth of Tsai Ing -wen.The national territory represented by the Republic of China also represents the break between the historical connection between the two sides of the strait.

This is a huge challenge.Is Jiang Qichen the new party chairman, can it be able to save the Kuomintang, or is it just the last struggle of the Kuomintang?As Jiang Qichen himself said, the challenge starts tomorrow, we can only wait and see.

The author is Beijing Freelance