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Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te is about to complete his 100th day in office. Senior media person Zhao Shaokang commented that due to Lai Ching-te's stubbornness in choosing evil, the past 100 days have seen cross-strait confrontations and clashes between the government and the opposition. "His performance is worse than that of the former leader Tsai Ing-wen." Lai Ching-te refuses to admit that he is a minority leader and is always confronting others head-on. His future performance in office is worrying.

Zhao Shaokang said that Lai Qingde's stubborn personality can be seen from the way he dealt with the "Laipi Liao" during the "election". This became even more obvious after Lai Qingde took office. The "double minority" leader, who won 40% of the votes in the "election" and less than half of the seats in the Legislative Yuan, completely ignored the opposition party, refused to communicate, compromise, or cooperate. In addition, the DPP's own internal struggles continued, and the 2026 county and city mayoral elections were held ahead of schedule, leaving Taiwan with no chance to rest and recuperate.

Zhao Shaokang said that when Tsai Ing-wen first took office, he hoped that she could achieve "cross-strait peace and reconciliation between the two parties" during her term. However, after leaving office after eight years, Tsai Ing-wen did not achieve either of these two things. Her successor, Lai Ching-te, was even worse. Tsai Ing-wen is at least feminine and does not have many conflicts, but Lai Ching-te always confronts people head-on. Because he is a dual minority leader and does not have many bargaining chips, he has to resort to a large-scale recall, starting with Keelung Mayor Xie Guoliang, and then waiting for the legislators to complete one year in office. As long as he recalls a few KMT legislators, he can get rid of the minority seat restriction in the public opinion institution.

Zhao Shaokang stressed that politics often requires compromise, and the same is true for cross-strait relations. Lai Ching-te has always used a hard-line approach to deal with things, and Taiwan's future situation is worrying. He also lamented that although Lai Ching-te's performance is really lackluster, everyone's expectations are very low now. As long as there is no war, they don't care much about domestic affairs and the economy. Therefore, Lai Ching-te's support in the polls can still be maintained, which is really sad for the people.

Lin Jingxian, Taiwan correspondent of Strait Herald