How low is the standard of professors from prestigious Blue-White camp universities? NTU's Yuan Juzheng: Switzerland has no cities! All European countries are parliamentary systems! NCCU's Liu Dehai: Poland teamed up with Biden to start the Russia-Ukraine war?! A total collapse of European political common sense!

In this video, host Stan refutes point-by-point the remarks made by National Taiwan University Professor Yuan Juzheng and National Chengchi University Professor Liu Dehai on a Taiwan political talk show. Yuan claimed on the show that Switzerland has no cities and all European countries have parliamentary systems, while Liu claimed that Poland allied with Biden to start the Russia-Ukraine war. Stan pointed out that these statements completely contradict facts and common sense, criticizing the scholars invited by the Blue-White camp for their exceptionally poor standards and full of conspiracy theories.

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Switzerland basically has no cities, what is, what do you mean Switzerland has no cities, you are a professor, a professor, was this position bought with a chicken leg? Good grief, and from National Taiwan University, Switzerland has no cities. The president hopes for better relations with Russia, Karol Nawrocki? Karol Nawrocki hopes for Russia? Do you know he is on Russia's blacklist? A reporter asked him a question, and he said I, Putin, am a murderer. News Hard-Hitting listens to the news and makes the news, I am the show host Stan, welcome everyone to watch. Just last week I released a very detailed video about the current constitutional crisis in Poland, the Polish president and conservative critics even accusing Prime Minister Tusk of carrying out a judicial coup, how the whole ins and outs have developed from the judicial reform in 2015 to the present, I even invited a wonderful guest, a Pole who is participating in the current protests, a reporter asked Nawrocki, because I want to bring the freshest and most diverse news to Taiwanese viewers, which also shows that what we at News Hard-Hitting do is very important. However, the Blue-White media always talk nonsense, and even though the titles of the people they invite sound very prestigious, like National Taiwan University professor, National Chengchi University professor, they are completely oblivious to what is happening in Poland, and even in Europe and the European Union, lacking even basic common sense. Therefore, I see that these so-called professors' titles seem to be blown up, all fake, no wonder the quality of Taiwan's Blue-White media is so atrocious, because once someone with the title of professor says a bunch of twisted logic and things that do not match the facts, they are not only embarrassing the media, they are embarrassing the entire academic community, and they even make major international events completely inconsistent with the facts. Therefore, as a media person, I believe these things should be exposed, I believe I must be responsible for my fans, and also, if anyone in your family really watches TVBS or CtiTV, you should still let them watch News Hard-Hitting's videos, because the standards of the guests on these Blue-White channels are so poor. Today, I am going to share two with you, one is the TVBS show News Big Talk, where they invited a Professor Yuan, Yuan Juzheng, he is a National Taiwan University professor. When I criticized National Taiwan University viewers in the past, there were still some people online saying, how can you criticize National Taiwan University?

There are tons of terrible people at National Taiwan University, and there are also many terrible professors who have no standards. It is just a school, and it has all kinds of people, geniuses as well as idiots. What we want to look at today is not the geniuses; we want to look at another kind, and then another one from National Chengchi University named Liu Dehai. What this Liu Dehai talked about is even more outrageous. Let's start with Professor Yuan, who is relatively less serious, but also very terrible. So Professor Yuan, how do you view the current situation in Poland? Ah, yes, this, right now, I'll first, I'll first say a bit about my views on the European situation. Liangge just explained it very carefully, because I originally studied in Europe. I have a little regret, but I think the trouble this time has two points that are very different. First, I really didn't expect that Switzerland and Germany... you are asked about things in Poland, and then you want to talk about Germany, and you still say you studied in Europe? If you studied in Europe, you should know that Poland and Germany are different countries, right? When reading this news, I was shocked. Switzerland is a very, very wealthy and peaceful country, Switzerland basically has no cities. How could Switzerland possibly have no cities?

May I ask, sir, have you ever been to Switzerland? Let me tell you, I, Stan, I go almost every year to participate in these protests, activities where Taiwan is not allowed to join the World Health Organization, and Taiwanese from all over the world come, and we come together to speak up for Taiwan, and we also hold many events around it, which is about Taiwan's medical sector. When I was working before, I also needed to go to Switzerland. Switzerland has many big cities, Swiss cities are very famous, and Switzerland also has many major airports. Don't you know if Zurich is a city? Is Geneva a city? Basel is also a city, Lausanne is also a city, and Lucerne is also a city, right? And this Bern is also a city, it's also the capital of Switzerland, well, nominally the capital. Actually, Switzerland's entire system is quite complex. Switzerland has many cities. You, you, you, you are, which planet's Switzerland did you go to? The Switzerland on our earth has many cities. Of course, they also have countryside, but most people in Switzerland also live in cities, and they also have highways, and those highways are very convenient, and the engineering is also done extremely well. What is, what is Switzerland has no cities? You are a professor! Was this professor position traded for a chicken leg?

Goodness gracious, even NTU says Switzerland has no cities. Switzerland really hates this kind of urban development, and this kind of thing all happens in cities. So Switzerland and Germany... as for Germany, it is famous for strictly observing discipline. That might be the Germany of 30 years ago. If they were observing discipline, then the Deutsche Bahn, meaning German railways, wouldn't have everyone running late! I'm saying that left-wing extremists and immigrant backgrounds are worrying. I feel, uh, that this sentence of his opened a new chapter regarding Germany returning to racial discrimination. Left-wing and extremists, yes, people with immigrant backgrounds too, like illegal immigrants taking to the streets, this fact... look at what flags they are holding? There are no German flags, no European flags, they all have some terrorist organization flags, there are Palestinian flags. It is indeed incited by the left, and some people are holding communist and Soviet flags, right? Racial discrimination? This has nothing to do with racial discrimination. It has to do with what the reasons for your protest are. Let's chat about this coup in Poland. This coup in Poland stems from their constitutional design, because all European countries are cabinet system countries. Professor Yuan, why are you so ignorant? How can all European countries be cabinet system countries?

Who, who told you that? Europe indeed has many cabinet-system countries; for example, the UK is very famous, Germany is also a very famous cabinet-system country, and the Czech Republic is also a cabinet-system country. However, within the EU alone, there are presidential systems and semi-presidential systems. For instance, France, Poland, Portugal, and Romania are not cabinet-system countries; some are presidential, and some are semi-presidential, where the prime minister and the president share the executive power quite evenly. Hey, and you call yourself a student? All European countries are cabinet-system countries? And there is also Cyprus, which is a full presidential system within the EU. Furthermore, there are non-EU members in Europe; even if you set aside Russia or Turkey, there is Ukraine, which is also a presidential country, and Moldova is also a presidential country. Even the dictatorial Belarus is nominally a presidential country, though in reality, it is a dictatorship. In a cabinet-system country, the president is a figurehead. And what is a figurehead? The Polish president is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces; he is not a figurehead. Moreover, he has veto power over bills passed by parliament, and he can even refuse to accept the swearing-in of Constitutional Court judges. The Polish president's power is quite significant. If he were truly a figurehead leader, how could he have such authority?

Besides, presidential elections are major events, whether in France or Poland. Professor Yuan, my god, what kind of standard does National Taiwan University actually have? And then, they mainly have a prime minister. In a cabinet-system country, we have the separation of executive, legislative, and judicial powers. In Poland's case this time, it is exactly what appeared in Montesquieu's book: the separation of the three powers of executive, legislative, and judicial. If it is legislative power, well, among the elected seats, when everyone gathers, they negotiate to choose a prime minister. This Polish prime minister is named Tusk. But regarding executive power, they actually have a substantive president named Duda—I don't want to criticize too much, but you came on this show to introduce what is currently happening in Poland, and you can't even remember the name of the country's president, yet you are a professor at National Taiwan University? This is quite embarrassing, but I won't hold it against you. You just said they were figureheads, you just said they were cabinet-system countries, so how could there be a president, and how could there be a directly elected president? Aren't you just slapping your own face?

This, this is basically the thing, well, now it's a big deal. The actual president has conflicts with the executive and legislative branches. People originally agreed that Poland wanted to join the EU, Poland wanted to develop. Poland is now one of the few countries in Europe that has been very, very successful in its development. When I went to Poland in 1999, I could feel it, and today it's completely brand new. Professor, you haven't been here for too long. If you said you came in 1999 BC, I would believe it too. My goodness, 1999, oh my god, Poland back then was very different from now. Poland hadn't joined the EU in 1999; it didn't join until 2004. But there is a problem, which is that in their judicial power, the appointment of constitutional judges requires the president's consent. And then, Tusk, he served as the Prime Minister of Poland for a long time—no, he didn't serve as Prime Minister for a long time, Poland has changed Prime Ministers. Tusk was Prime Minister before, but later, when the Polish conservatives took office, there was a period with a Prime Minister from the Law and Justice party, like Morawiecki, whom I personally admire, Mateusz Morawiecki. This person also served as Prime Minister for quite a long time. Tusk returned to the, well, this position in 2023, because at that time the Polish left-wing won more seats, so the right-wing conservatives became the minority in parliament, and that's when Tusk returned. So he has basically only been serving from 2023 until now, and there is an election next year too. He took advantage of the president being away in Africa to immediately dismiss the president and vice president of their Constitutional Tribunal. And then, it was claimed that this was equivalent to a coup d'état in Poland, because if you violate the constitution, that's called a coup. And the president was even more impressive; he turned his plane around in the air, flew back, and returned to Poland. Wow, and then he solved it—well, he didn't solve the problem, because Poland's problem lies in the design of the constitution. Everyone needs to be clear, the setting of the constitution is where the problem arises. This is why people talk about the concept of a figurehead head of state. The Polish constitution's president is not a figurehead. Perhaps Professor Yuan hasn't read the content of the Polish constitution, which is why he said Poland is a semi-presidential system or a mixed system. Mainly, the president has veto power, the president is also the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and the president also represents Poland internationally. What is a figurehead head of state?

Just like the German case you just mentioned, Germany has Steinmeier, who is just a president and actually doesn't play any role, while they have a chancellor. That is not the case in Poland, and I think this is also a huge problem. Because in Taiwan when people talk about Europe, it seems they only talk about Germany, and some people understand France a little better. But I think this Mr. Yuan, he compares Poland to Germany. We are very different from Germany; we are much better than Germany, much safer than Germany, and much more developed than Germany. In Taiwan, there is another extreme, which is that some graduates of Russian departments want to evaluate and comment on Poland because of the Slavic language family issue—the languages are close, but politics, history, and even the language are still very different. Just because they are in the same language family, well, English and German are both Germanic languages, right? You cannot say that just because you studied German, you can talk about how American politics works; that is completely impractical. But in Taiwan, there is indeed this trend. Because you absolutely, absolutely cannot let it affect the substantive operation; your executive power must be independent, and in the US there is also the separation of powers, though its judicial power is rarely used. Now in Poland, all bills frequently have to go through the approval of the Constitutional Tribunal. In this case, as Brother Liang just mentioned, it's very similar to the dispute between our Cho Jung-tai and Han Kuo-yu—a dispute between the executive power and the legislative power. Comparing it to this case makes some sense, but not entirely, because this involves the president and the prime minister, who are two branches of the executive power, coming into conflict. But this conflict arose over the judicial power, because appointing judges is nominated by parliament and then the president must accept it, but the president does not accept. At this point, why does the prime minister call it a coup? Because the prime minister doesn't have this right; he asked those judges vetoed by the president to take their oath in parliament, and then claimed they are judges. This bypassed the procedure prescribed by the constitution, because Tusk is not the speaker of the legislature either; he is the prime minister, and these roles are different. The prime minister represents the executive power, and the legislature represents the legislative power. Now, if we look at the guests on this TVBS show, I'd give them a score: out of a full score of 100, they get 58, which is a bit short of passing. But basically, some of the basic things that happened could still be stated, yet when it comes to the core—what the executive power is doing, what the judicial power is doing, what the legislative power is doing, how it is divided in Poland, and how this conflict originated—they just couldn't do it because they don't understand. And they even said things like Switzerland has no cities, and Germany is very disciplined—those are all just stereotypes. Swiss cities are very developed, and the issue of German discipline is also a thing of the past. If you went to Poland in 1999, then you probably went to Germany in 1871, I don't know. Let's look at Want Want China Times (CtiTV). CtiTV invited a professor from National Chengchi University, and this is even more absurd. His name is Liu Dehai, who sounds a bit like Andy Lau (Liu Dehua), but doesn't look like Andy Lau, so he can only be Liu Dehai. It's somewhat related to the elections that previously happened in Hungary, overthrowing Orbán, because they are different from the EU. What is it?

They are different from the EU; we are the EU. Hungary is too, it's in the EU. Poland is in the EU as well. As I just said, they joined in 2004, so it's already been 22 years, quite a long time. They joined later as part of the V4; they belong to the V4. Yes. So, for them, what they value is their relations with Europe, the United States, and Russia. Now, regarding the situation with these two presidents in Poland—well, the president and the prime minister come from different political parties. I think you so-called professors have no idea how disrespectful you are to Poland, do you? One compares Poland to Germany, and the other compares Poland to Hungary. And Hungary indeed finds a balance among the EU, the US, and Russia. So in the past, Orbán also had some relations with Russia, some relations with the US—especially with the conservatives over there—and with the EU because it is an EU member state, but Poland is not like that. Furthermore, when will this kind of ignorance of yours be shattered? Just looking at what you mentioned about Russia: Russia is Poland's biggest challenger, and currently its biggest competitor, even its enemy. This is a national consensus; regardless of whether you are left-wing, right-wing, or centrist, you all feel that Russia is a danger. If you look at Poland's defense policy, you look at its foreign policy, you know that from the perspective of the Polish people, the factor currently disrupting European security is Russia. But they are both right-wing, and to consider the prime minister as center-right is a fallacy of the Western media. I can accept Tusk being called center-right, but to say he is center-right—if he were truly right-wing, he wouldn't have someone like this guy Czarkowski by his side, who was a former communist. If he were truly right-wing, he wouldn't stand and ally with the extreme left. If Tusk is center-right, then Merkel and von der Leyen are also right-wing, right? No, they aren't. Their parties might have truly been considered center-right twenty or thirty years ago, but they have long since deviated, long since stood together with the left. You can tell by the policies they pass; it's the same thing—they don't do their homework and don't understand the situation. Now, as for the president, he belongs to the far-right faction, so the president hopes for better relations with Russia. Ah, Karol Nawrocki, hoping for relations with Russia—do you know that he is on Russia's blacklist? Do you know what kind of unit he used to lead in Poland? This unit is called the Institute of National Remembrance, which specifically studies the terrible things done by the Soviet Union—the Soviet Union and the Nazis were those regimes that persecuted the Polish people—and Russia hates him to the core. Moreover, President Nawrocki is very courageous; even when he went to Hungary, knowing that Hungary's stance means it has dealings with Russia, he was right there. When reporters asked him questions, he said: Vladimir Putin is a murderer. Among friends, we must be conscious; we are not all the same, there are some things we agree on, but we disagree on others. To the Polish state, Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation pose a danger, just like in 1920. Poles like Ukraine, they don't like Vladimir Putin; he is a war criminal, and even more so, a threat. But in diplomacy, yes, for me, as the president of Poland, Vladimir Putin is a threat to Europe, as well as to North Africa—well, Europe—but among friends, concerning the state, there are things we can agree on, but there are things within the family that we do not need to agree on.

So the politics here are clear. When he was elected, he was an independent, but he was supported by Law and Justice (PiS), that is, PiS itself. If you look at the party meetings, Jaroslaw Kaczynski also very clearly knew that Russia is the greatest danger. You absolutely cannot say that PiS hopes for better relations with Russia. On the contrary, the one who used to have good relations with Russia was Tusk. Although he doesn't talk about it now, he used to have very close dealings with Russia, and their relationship was extremely good. My god, he is a professor, isn't a professor supposed to verify facts? My god, how can you be so ignorant? I... my god, I'm even crying. The Prime Minister is the mainstream faction in Poland now, hoping for better relations with the EU. What is the mainstream in Poland? This... hello, the President is also directly elected, and the majority of people voted for the President, the conservative President. Polish society is quite divided, a bit like the United States. In the U.S., half the population is Republican and half is Democratic, and sometimes the election results are different. It's the same in Poland; the left and the right are roughly split in half. You can break it down further; some are more right-wing than the right, and some are more left-wing than the left, but basically, society is half and half. What is mainstream? Isn't Kaczynski mainstream? He was also elected by one person, one vote, and I also voted for him, so isn't he mainstream? Does he not count as mainstream just because he got the majority of votes? This... how did you become a professor? Was it bought with a chicken leg too?

But then again, Poland is not what Huilin just said, that people are worried. No, Poland is the real pusher behind the Russia-Ukraine war. Ah, the pusher, it was Poland that joined forces with Biden to stir up this war. I think you should go to hell. You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want, especially since you are a professor. You are a professor in the field of international relations, yet you speak so irresponsibly, so arrogantly, so ignorantly, and with such conspiracy theories. And of course, only a low-class media outlet like CtiTV would give you a platform. My god, this is terrifying. This kind of irresponsible attitude toward one's own words, and with the title of a professor, it's the first time I've heard of it. There is only one pusher of the Russia-Ukraine war, and his name is Putin. Putin misjudged Ukraine, and Putin also thought that Europe would be weak and that the United States would not help Ukraine, so he invaded. He received wrong intelligence. This should also be available in various international media and research reports from various countries. And how could Poland collude with the Biden administration? My god, viewers, let me tell you, this is why this bullshit cannot be believed, why these people have no basic common sense at all. You have to look at what year the Russia-Ukraine war happened, 2022, right? In 2022, who was in power in Poland? The conservatives, the full conservative government. The President was Duda, President Andrzej Duda, and the Prime Minister at that time was Mateusz Morawiecki. These people, they all had very good relations with the U.S. Republican Party. They weren't on bad terms with the Biden administration, but in terms of relationship, it wasn't that close, because the Polish Law and Justice party is conservative, they are closer to the U.S. Republican Party, while the Civic Platform, which is Tusk's party, is closer to the Democratic Party. So how could the Polish conservatives collude with Biden to trigger the Russia-Ukraine war?

I-I-I think you might be, I don't know what drugs you're taking or what alcohol you're drinking to say something like this, because for him to talk about profiting from this kind of war, from beginning to end, Poland is actually an important pusher. And has Poland gained any profit? It has gained leadership in Europe, ah, lea-leadership, yes, its Europe later became—it was the one that brought Merkel down. Leadership, yes, its Europe later became—it was the one that brought Merkel down, ah, Merkel later was, was, it was all related to Poland. Poland led these small countries to fight against, uh, Germany and France, especially Germany, which was fought very miserably, because, because Biden was on their side. Is Poland that powerful? I think if Poland could unite with some other EU countries to take down Germany, it would be very satisfying. I hope it's true, but it's just not. Bullshit. Really, at that time, ah, how could it take down Germany? Who was the German Chancellor at that time? Scholz? Olaf Scholz. Merkel stepped down because she had been in power for a long time, and the Germans were already very, very disgusted with the Christian Democratic Union, and also very tired, hoping for some changes, so they finally voted for more, more of a, a political party, which is the Social Democratic Party. And at that time, it took a long time to figure out what kind of coalition to form, so at that time, uh, when the Russia-Ukraine war just broke out, they were called the traffic light coalition, one is the Green Party, one is the Social Democratic Party, and one is the Free Democratic Party. This has nothing to do with Poland.

Ah, so the current situation has become that now there's a change, the US has changed, Trump has changed, now they are nervous about the EU's position, they almost don't even have the qualifications to negotiate, so this has now become the problem. Then next, ah, conversely, the relationship between the US and Russia is getting better and better, ah, one moment saying Poland is not the EU, one moment saying Poland is worried that the EU's negotiation space will become smaller. Poland has always implemented an independent foreign policy, the EU is one link, the EU is a part, Poland is also a very key link in the EU, but we also have our own foreign policy. President Duda's relationship with Trump is very good, and when he was running for election, Trump also supported him, right, at that time, he went to the White House, took a photo with him, and then he said, I hope this person is elected president, and currently, there is talk of a new, large, permanent US military base in Poland, plus Poland just received the F-35s. Poland's relationship with the current US administration team is much better than during the Biden era, because the Republican Party has always had a very close relationship with Polish conservatives. I don't know why the standard of these elite university professors is so inferior? The EU has become the biggest loser. But Poland will still not lose, because whether it's under Biden or Trump, Poland is considered the most important country in Europe, ah, in the future Trump might even move troops from Germany to, uh, Poland. Not in the future, it's already happened, and he did it once in his first term, and he did it again in his second term, because Germany is unreliable, Germany is unwilling to pay in terms of, uh, national defense, and Germany has always had a very good relationship with Russia, it is, it is untrustworthy, it, it actually doesn't support Poland, it's the entire eastern side of NATO, from the Baltic states to Poland, that will receive greater attention from the US, to serve as a, Poland is a bulwark for European security, to resist Russia, or to interact with Russia.

So, so, actually the Poles aren't worried; the Poles are waiting to see how the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia turn out, and whether they can take advantage of their friendly relations with the US to make a profit. Because some of Poland's land is over there in Ukraine, and they really hope to take some of it back. This is just talking a bunch of irresponsible bullshit. Regardless of who is in power in Poland, relations with Ukraine are very important; this is our biggest neighbor and a country very close to us culturally. Any territorial issues were resolved long ago. So far, there are no territorial conflicts between Poland and Ukraine. Most of the conflicts between Poland and Ukraine are related to national memory, namely the Volyn tragedy—meaning during World War II, some things happened where Ukrainians killed Poles, and things like that. Basically, how these Polish burial sites and their history should be restored, that is the dispute between Poland and Ukraine, not territory. Poland does not need more territory; our territory is very large. Of course, in western Ukraine there is a lot of Polish culture, and of course Poles also love to go to places like Lviv. There are many famous Polish writers and musicians who were born in Lviv, because this used to be Poland. But liking to visit doesn't mean thinking Lviv should become Polish. Poland isn't China, you know? We abide by international agreements. Do you like China very much? Well, then hurry up and go there.

Ah, so actually, whether Russia wins or loses, Ukraine's loss or win might even present a bit of a territorial opportunity for Poland. Good god, how can such poor standards still allow someone to be a professor at a university in Taiwan? I am shocked. Today, when I made these shares, I originally thought we could just laugh it off, but actually I think this is a terrifying phenomenon. I really hope my fans, friends, and viewers—who I believe are also graduates of these schools—how do you view some professors going on these shows and speaking so irresponsibly, with such ignorance, arrogance, and disrespect for others? Feel free to leave a comment in the comment section below so we can have a proper discussion on this issue.