Green Terror (Taiwan)

"Green Terror" (Chinese: 綠色恐怖; pinyin: Lǜsè Kǒngbù; Wade–Giles: Lü⁴sê⁴ Kʻung³pu⁴) is a political term used to characterize and criticize purported "authoritarian-like" actions of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) or the pan-Green camp. It is used by the DPP's opponents in Taiwan (mainly the pan-Blue camp and the Taiwan People's Party), but is also sometimes used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).^[1][a] The term is a combination the DPP's party color and "White Terror", a reference to political repression under the Kuomintang's rule by martial law.

Examples

Since 2014, the Ma Ying-jeou government has attempted to reduce Taiwanization and strengthen the identity of the 'Republic of China' in high school history subjects. This has intensified into a political debate, with criticism from pan-Green camps, including the DPP, which values the 'Taiwanese' identity over the identity of the 'Republic of China'.^{[citation needed]} After asserting that the DPP's view on the deletion of the "White Terror" from the new syllabus was a form of de-Taiwanization, Lin Ming-cheng [zh], a politician with the Chinese ultra-nationalist New Party, said that the DPP's approach was the "Green Terror".^[3]

Following the arrest of Ko Wen-je, the chairman of the Taiwan People's Party (TPP), Huang Kuo-chang blamed the arrest on Green Terror.^[4]

Similar term

• "Taluban" (Chinese: 塔綠班; pinyin: Tǎlǜbān; Wade–Giles: Tʻa³lü⁴pan¹) is a buzzword that emerged on Taiwan's online forum PTT in August 2021, combining the Islamic fundamentalist organization "Taliban" (Chinese: 塔利班; pinyin: Tǎlìbān; Wade–Giles: Tʻa³li⁴pan¹) and the DPP's party color (Chinese: 綠; pinyin: lǜ; Wade–Giles: lü⁴; lit. 'green'). It is mainly used for opposing camps other than the pan-Green camp, and is a term used to criticize the pan-Green or DPP and its supporters or the 1450 Internet army.^[5]

• "Green Communists" (Chinese: 綠共; pinyin: lǜgòng; Wade–Giles: lü⁴kung⁴) is a term used to criticize the DPP's political behavior as "CCP-like". Comparing DPP to the CCP is meant to accuse DPP of controlling speech, fighting against dissidents, promoting nationalism, and using the judiciary to persecute political opponents.^[6][7]

See also

• Anti-Infiltration Act, opponents of the act called it "Green Terror" or "Second White Terror".
• "Communist bandit", originally a Taiwanese anti-communist term often used during the [Kuomintang one-party dictatorship] White Terror, but today pro-independence supporters who are hawkish on the PRC are also used to denounce Kuomintang who is dovish on the PRC.
• Far-right politics#Taiwan (Republic of China)
• Hoklo Taiwanese chauvinism
• Liberal Hawk (United States)

Notes

1. Some media criticized the DPP's politics as quasi-fascist or far-right.^[2]