Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei mayoral candidate Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) recently criticized former minister of health and welfare Chen Shih-chung’s (陳時中) entry into the Taipei mayoral race, likening Chen’s ambition to Sima Zhao’s (司馬昭) ill intent in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義), and advised Chen not to mix politics with disease prevention.
Chiang added that if Chen wanted to throw his hat into the ring, he owed Taipei residents an explanation.
Chiang’s statement is downright ignorant and democratically illiterate.
Chiang could not have been more wrong in using the historical allegory about Sima Zhao. The story gave birth to the
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