TPP Criticizes President's 2-Year Anniversary Speech for Failing to Address Governance Performance

(CNA, by reporter Tseng Yi-ning, Taipei, 20th) President Lai Ching-te delivered his 2-year anniversary address today, prompting the Taiwan People's Party (TPP) and its legislative caucus to issue a statement pointing out that President Lai's report card, in the face of domestic deadlock, an energy crisis, and international geopolitical shifts, consists only of slogans and fails to respond to the test of governance performance. Regarding President Lai's 2-year anniversary address, the Taiwan People's Party responded that while President Lai calls for unity between ruling and opposition parties, his actual actions demonstrate an extreme and hardline confrontational stance on both cross-strait and national affairs. Not only has he led large-scale recall campaigns, but he has also deliberately manipulated ideology to create hatred, resulting in increasingly tense cross-strait and inter-party relations, tearing the country apart, and 'completely failing to display the stature expected of a national leader.' The TPP stated that in his responses to media questions, President Lai's constant repetition that 'U.S. policy towards Taiwan has not changed' is clearly an ostrich mentality, unwilling to face the warning signs of international reality. In the face of the tremors following the Trump-Xi meeting, President Lai has never dared to directly defend national dignity, instead repackaging and reinterpreting Taiwan independence, and repeatedly using information gaps to cover up the DPP's reckless budgeting and waste of public funds. The TPP stated that since 2022, the DPP has declared the creation of a national drone team. From the 'Six Core Strategic Industries Promotion Plan' to the 'Unmanned Vehicle Industry Development Overall Plan,' a total of approximately NT$85.35 billion has been allocated, in addition to annual subsidies of several hundred million NT dollars from the Industrial Development Administration of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. 'How could there be no money to develop the drone industry?' The TPP pointed out that regarding energy policy, President Lai's remarks remain vague and empty, with no clear answers for Taiwan's future stable energy sources and no concrete path for carbon reduction transition. Facing the huge electricity demand from the AI industry and high-performance computing, the government still dares not honestly face the energy reality, continuing to replace pragmatic planning with empty slogans, and even causing Taiwan's carbon reduction progress to regress rather than advance. The TPP stated that two years into his term, facing domestic deadlock, an energy crisis, and drastic international geopolitical changes, the report card submitted consists only of endless slogans and political rhetoric blaming the opposition parties for policy failures. The Taiwan People's Party's Legislative Yuan Caucus also issued a press release stating that President Lai's 2-year anniversary speech was less an exposition of his governance philosophy and vision and more a meticulously packaged 'self-defense.' From budget allocation and energy policy to the cross-strait approach, the entire speech was not about solving problems but concealing them; not about taking responsibility but shifting it. The TPP caucus stated that on cross-strait relations, President Lai criticizes those who advocate for establishing channels for dialogue with China