Chapter 5 examines the PRC “Red” community’s threat perceptions by analyzing CCP-controlled Taiwan specialist academic journals (2004–2021) using Structural Topic Modeling (STM). Unlike Taiwan’s media, these journals reflect Party-sanctioned views. The analysis reveals that the most prevalent securitization topic is none other than Taiwan subjectivity itself – the very idea of Taiwan’s autonomous selfhood – which the PRC journals frame as a dangerous, irrational delusion threatening China’s core identity and unification goal. Other key topics include “Irresponsible US Policy” (especially during the Trump era), “Taiwan’s Unsatisfactory Mainland Policy” (portraying DPP leaders like Tsai Ing-wen as cognitively flawed or Machiavellian), and the “DPP’s Populist Authoritarianism.” Strikingly, discussion of “Confidence-Building Measures” vanished after 2016, replaced by an increasingly prevalent discourse on the “Strategy for Achieving National Unification,” emphasizing the inevitability of unification under “One Country, Two Systems” and rejecting any compromise on PRC sovereignty. This Red perspective, which pathologizes Taiwan’s identity aspirations, completes the triad driving the cross-Strait Hobbesian culture.

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Red Invalidation: Pathologizing Taiwan Selfhood No Matter What the Color

  • Daniel C. Lynch,
  • Cody Wai-Kwok Yau

摘要

Chapter 5 examines the PRC “Red” community’s threat perceptions by analyzing CCP-controlled Taiwan specialist academic journals (2004–2021) using Structural Topic Modeling (STM). Unlike Taiwan’s media, these journals reflect Party-sanctioned views. The analysis reveals that the most prevalent securitization topic is none other than Taiwan subjectivity itself – the very idea of Taiwan’s autonomous selfhood – which the PRC journals frame as a dangerous, irrational delusion threatening China’s core identity and unification goal. Other key topics include “Irresponsible US Policy” (especially during the Trump era), “Taiwan’s Unsatisfactory Mainland Policy” (portraying DPP leaders like Tsai Ing-wen as cognitively flawed or Machiavellian), and the “DPP’s Populist Authoritarianism.” Strikingly, discussion of “Confidence-Building Measures” vanished after 2016, replaced by an increasingly prevalent discourse on the “Strategy for Achieving National Unification,” emphasizing the inevitability of unification under “One Country, Two Systems” and rejecting any compromise on PRC sovereignty. This Red perspective, which pathologizes Taiwan’s identity aspirations, completes the triad driving the cross-Strait Hobbesian culture.