Liar's speeches reflect separatists' desperation

Starting June 22, Taiwan leader Lai Chingte has been on a speaking tour across the Chinese island. Delivering the third installment of his "10 lectures on unity" in Hsinchu on Sunday, Lai focused on the so-called constitutional system. Yet the gist of his speech was still spreading the fallacy that Taiwan has never been part of China, and once again perpetuating his narrative of conflict and division across the Taiwan Strait.

With hackneyed and stereotyped expressions, his speech was nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to promote the notion of "Taiwan independence". Camouflaged as a legal discourse, it was a call to arms for separatism, espousing the hidden agenda of drumming up support for his "mass recall" campaign.

Dismissing the historical realities that firmly establish Taiwan as an integral part of China, Lai falsely presented the island as having its own "constitutional" system in a vain attempt to legitimize his vision of Taiwan having a "separate national identity". His manipulation and distortion of legal frameworks to advance his separatist agenda lacks any substantive historical or legal basis and is merely a political maneuver to sow discord and division within Taiwan society.