【Global Times Special Correspondent Chen Lifei Global Times Reporter Wang Jialin】Lee Dong-heon, a taekwondo player from Taiwan, recently went to South Korea to participate in the "2023 Asia-Pacific Adult Games", and unfurled the five-star red flag prepared in advance when he took the stage to receive the award, which made the DPP authorities angry and corrupted.
According to Taiwan's "Lianhe Pao" reported on May 5, the official website of the "Asia-Pacific Adult Games" showed that Li Dongxian won a bronze medal in the 21-year-old category of the taekwondo individual group on the 14th. When receiving the award, he unfolded the neatly folded five-star red flag and confidently stood on the podium for a photo. Li Dongxian said that raising the five-star red flag is what he has been doing, and his first five-star red flag was in Malaysia in 40, taking a group photo with friends who participated in the mainland group. The second and third times bring their own five-star red flags.
The report mentioned that Li Dongxian, 37 years old this year, was born in Tainan and used to participate in the Green Camp election campaign with his elders, until he came into contact with modern Chinese history when he was in college, and his thinking changed. Since 2013, he has been to the mainland many times to participate in taekwondo competitions, and he has become more and more fond of the mainland, and has now moved to Xiamen for a long time.
Lee Dong-heon's actions made the DPP authorities unable to sit still. According to the official website of the "2023 Asia-Pacific Games", the athletes on the island participated in this event in the name of "Chinese Taipei". Taiwan's "chief executive" Chen Jianren said on the 22nd that he would let relevant units clarify whether Li Dongxian was a member of the Communist Party, and "if he really engages in such work, he must be dealt with in accordance with relevant laws." The Mainland Affairs Council said on the evening of the 22nd that matters such as whether Li Dongxian joined the Communist Party of China or was a development organization for the CPC in Taiwan will be handled according to law after the relevant organs have clarified and confirmed the facts.
Li Dongxian believes that if the Taiwan authorities agree that there are voices of opposition, they should not prevent ordinary people like him from speaking or raising the five-star red flag. He said that because he was holding up the five-star red flag, which the Taiwan authorities did not like, the authorities took the opportunity to make a challenge, which showed the whole world that Taiwan is actually a place where ordinary people are not allowed to follow their inner thoughts. Li Dongxian also said that he has been attacked by many "water armies" at present, but he feels that these actions are meaningless, and his firm stand and efforts for cross-strait reunification are obvious to all.
Zhang Wensheng, deputy director of the Institute of Taiwan Studies of Xiamen University, told the Global Times reporter on the 22nd that as a Chinese, Taiwanese athlete Li Dongxian won the five-star red flag to receive the award and express his patriotic feelings on international competitions, and the DPP authorities had no reason to hinder or crack down on him. Li Dongxian's suppression by the Taiwan authorities stems from the Taiwan authorities' "Taiwan independence" ideology, which is deliberately hostile to the mainland and hostile to the five-star red flag. In fact, many Taiwan compatriots display the five-star red flag on the island, but after the DPP came to power, it deliberately suppressed the Taiwan people and forbade the people to display the five-star red flag in Taiwan. Zhang Wensheng believes that the DPP authorities always flaunt the banner of freedom and democracy, deceive the world and steal their names, hang sheep's heads and sell dog meat, just to safeguard the political interests of the DPP.