Wang Xiaofei and Taiwanese artist Barbie Hsu (Big S) officially announced their divorce on November 22, bringing their 10-year relationship to an end.
In fact, their marriage was red-lit as early as June this year when two cases of Taiwan’s COVID-19 were found in Xiamen. One of them was found in Taipei’s Songshan Airport with a positive PCR nucleic acid test report and successfully boarded a flight to Xiamen, only to be discovered after landing.
Wang Xiaofei fired on Weibo, scolding someone with coronavirus flew to Xiamen, ” We have a sincere heart and have been continuously used and slandered by them. After so many years of watching it, I really can’t bear it, according to my Beijinger’s words. It must be recorded in the history books.” In the first edition of the article, this was even described as a “traitor”.
The media later asked Barbie Hsu’s opinion in response to Wang’s statement, she said she was going through the divorce process, to which Barbie Hsu’s mother eased up, her daughter was speaking out of anger, and said her daughter and son-in-law were worried about the children, and she would advise the couple to put up with it.
But was Wang Xiaofei wrong to speak that? Imagine if someone on a flight from mainland China to Taiwan was found to be infected with the coronavirus, Taiwan’s reaction must be more intense than Wang Xiaofei’s, when the “Taiwan independence” will smear that this is a “Chinese biological weapons attack on Taiwan”? Because twelve years ago, when dealing with cross-strait direct flights, the Democratic Progressive Party had distorted it as “Trojan Horse Massacre”.
Wang Xiaofei posted on Weibo at that time, “At this era, don’t fool the people in the name of elections. If a Chinese-speaking person says he is Japanese, how is it different from traitors? The traitors in the Chinese nation are like Qin Hui, kneeling there forever. If you are willing to kneel forever, then kneel, don’t pull the 23 million Taiwanese and kneel together.” This was after Tsai Ing-wen posted in Japanese on Twitter to thank the Japanese government Support Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Assembly (WHA).
For Wang Xiaofei, it is only natural to say that Taiwanese are Chinese, and to educate their children to be Chinese.
However, such a common-sense in Taiwan society has long become wrong, especially when love for Taiwan is contrasted with “hate for the mainland”, even many people who agree with common sense in their hearts, can only keep their mouths shut, afraid of inadvertently causing trouble.
Barbie Hsu is an entertainer, and she also has family and friends on the island. When Wang Xiaofei’s direct words touch on the public trial of whether she “loves Taiwan” or not, it is naturally a great pressure for her, and Mr. Wang’s criticism of “Taiwan independence” may be misinterpreted as scolding Taiwan, thus deepening the rift between them.
A similar example is Fukuhara Ai, who grew up playing in Northeast China and speaks fluent Northeastern Mandarin, for her, Japan is her first hometown and China is her second. Fukuhara Ai may not understand the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, but married far away to Taiwan, she identifies with “Sino-Japanese friendship”, rather than “Taiwan-Japanese goodwill”.
When the outbreak in Wuhan, Fukuhara Ai in Weibo naturally wrote “Wuhan cheer”, which caused a scolding war among netizens. She deleted the post to clarify that she was very sad. Although ” the mountains and rivers are different, the wind and the moon are in the same sky” from her mouth is more than appropriate. But for Taiwan, from the ban on the export of face masks to insist that “Wuhan pneumonia”, when the mountains and rivers become indifferent and teasing, Fukuhara Ai can hardly stay out of the matter.
Wang Xiaofei, like Fukuhara Ai, does not need to betray his identity by using the standards of new residents of Taiwan. The ten-year marriage between him and Barbie Hsu, why it went from sweet to broken, the outside world does not know.
However, the challenge of the public opinion environment is a factor that cannot be ignored. Especially when the expression of “China” identity has caused a backlash from the so-called “Taiwan nationalists” with separatist tendencies on the island, people are a product of the environment. Under such group pressure, his marriage to Barbie Hsu is naturally difficult to get rid of the invisible political giant palm.
When a 10-year relationship cannot escape the danger of “Taiwan independence” and the split between the two sides of the strait makes “love” so heavy, this situation should end soon! Source