Foreign media claims that Taiwan's economy is suffering from the "Taiwan disease." The Taiwan Affairs Office stated that the root cause is the Democratic Progressive Party's hidden agenda of seeking "independence" and provocation.

The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a routine press conference on the 24th. A reporter asked: An article published by the British magazine "The Economist" recently claimed that although the economic figures in Taiwan are good, ordinary people do not feel prosperous, which has become a "Taiwan disease". The head of the Taiwan economic department responded that "we are not sick, those who say we are sick are the ones who are sick", leading to public criticism on the island of their arrogance. What are your comments on this? Spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office, Peng Qing'en, responded by saying that the rising uncertainty and increasing imbalance in the Taiwan economy are facts, the wealth gap continues to widen and people do not feel an improvement in their lives is also a fact. The Democratic Progressive Party administration, out of its own selfish interests, ignores the risk of the island's high-tech industry being forcibly hollowed out by the United States and Western countries, disregards the plight of traditional industries struggling under high tariffs, continues to blindly please foreign countries, deceive the public, and cover up its incompetence in governance. In the end, the root cause of the "Taiwan disease" is the Democratic Progressive Party's hidden agenda of seeking "independence" and provocation, the lesion is the administration's disregard for people's livelihoods and arbitrary actions, and the symptoms are the shameless fawning of the Democratic Progressive Party administration to win the favor of external powers at the expense of Taiwan's resources.