China News Service, Beijing, April 20th, title: Every day must be soft, the DPP's "anti-nuclear" stance is indeed a double standard

　　Author Haisheng

　　Recently, Japan announced that it would discharge nuclear waste water into the sea, triggering strong opposition from the people in Taiwan.

In the face of the Japanese government, the DPP authority, which has always boasted of creating a "non-nuclear home", is like a "soft-footed shrimp", as if it has forgotten its advertised "anti-nuclear" stance.

　　Once upon a time, the "anti-nuclear" "God card" was repeatedly used by the Democratic Progressive Party to gain political benefits.

In 2014 and 2015, relying on two "anti-nuclear demonstrations", the DPP severely inflicted the KMT's momentum and forced the completed fourth nuclear power plant in Taiwan to be sealed up.

At that time, Tsai Ing-wen, who was the chairman of the DPP at the time, "goed to the fire" and went deep into the parade. He even proposed a "2025 non-nuclear home" to take the opportunity to harvest the voters' dividends and finally win the 2016 Taiwan leader election.

　　Nowadays, in response to Japanese nuclear waste water entering the sea, many non-governmental organizations in Taiwan have submitted a letter of protest to the "Japan Taiwan Exchange Association" in Taipei to express their protest.

The public also called on the DPP authorities to be tough on Japan on this issue.

　　However, in the face of Japan, the DPP authorities have stood on the opposite side of the people.

The leader of the government, Tsai Ing-wen, and others are "sacredly hidden", and only the Taiwan authorities have "spokenly" expressed "regret" and "worries" to the foreign affairs department, the "Representative Office in Japan," and the "The Original Energy Association" and other departments.

Xie Changting, who was ridiculed by the people of Taiwan as a "representative of helping Japan," even publicly "endorsed" Japan's actions, claiming that "nuclear waste water can be drunk after being diluted," and conflating nuclear heat cooling water with nuclear polluted waste water in an attempt to justify Japan.

　　Regarding whether nuclear wastewater is harmful, relevant experts have said that radioisotopes such as tritium, carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 in the wastewater cannot be completely removed.

These substances will accumulate in the marine food chain and eventually return to humans through the food chain, endangering human health.

　　Judging from the geographical location of Taiwan, the people on the island will become one of the first people to be contaminated by nuclear weapons.

According to a study by the Ocean University of Taiwan, if nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant is continuously discharged outside the plant site, depending on its diffusion rate and scope, it may affect Taiwan's offshore waters at the earliest one and a half years after the discharge begins.

　　What the DPP authorities should do at this moment is to stick to their "anti-nuclear" stance and fight with their neighbors, giving priority to the maintenance of the ecological environment and the health and well-being of the people in Taiwan.

However, when the "nuclear" issue involves Japan, the "anti-nuclear" "God's card" has repeatedly failed.

Prior to this, the DPP authorities intended to import food from the nuclear-affected areas in Japan, causing complaints among the people in Taiwan. Faced with the issue of Japan’s nuclear waste water discharge, the DPP authorities’ words and deeds once again exposed their undisguised double standards in their “anti-nuclear” stance.

　　"Every day will be soft" has become a chronic disease of the DPP.

In the future, if Japan dumps nuclear waste water into the ocean, it will definitely affect the livelihoods of Taiwanese people.

The DPP authorities blindly flatter the Japanese to please the people, regardless of the livelihood and well-being of the people on the island, and will eventually reap the consequences.

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