This commentary was published on many bulletin boards inside the Great Firewall, such as Cat898.com, one of the most popular online forums in China. The post stayed for several hours before being deleted by censors. It is now on overseas Chinese news sites such as Boxun.com, translated by CDT:
Some people say that those who run for election have the sweetest mouths. They speak with temptation, like an advertisement.
[If he ran for office in the Mainland,] Ma Ying-jeou‘s campaign team would come to railway stations, comforting those travellers waiting in the freezing wind to go home.
He would speak through a loudspeaker: The government is responsible for decades of transportation chaos during Spring Festival. It is causd by a monopoly in the transportation sector.
He would promise that if he was elected, the railway department would lower ticket prices ten days before and after the Spring Festival. Second, he would reform the hukou residential registration system, solving migrant workers’ transportation problems at the root level.
People on the square would give thunderous applause.
Ma Ying-jeou’s campaign team would go to the scene of mining disasters, comforting families of dead miners. He would say that the government is responsible for such frequent disasters; they are the consequence of mine owners pursuing high profits but disregarding the life of miners. In order to change the situation, we must let labor unions participate and monitor work safety.
People in coal mines would see Ma Ying-jeou off with tears in their eyes.
Ma Ying-jeou would publish articles in newspapers calling for an end to all kinds of discrimination, such as regional discrimination in the college entrance exam competitions; such as changing the current strong-armed committee on planned reproduction into family planning counseling units, and canceling the penalties for over-quota births.
Ma Ying-jeou would…….
But our main melody says: These election campaigns are all deceptive and are impossible for China. Therefore, some Party secretary of Fengcheng has sent his men to wait for Mr. Ma at the Beijing railway station.
