According to the Hong Kong China Assessment Service, whether the former "Legislative Yuan" Wang Jinping represented the Chinese Kuomintang at the Straits Forum held in Xiamen in mid-September? General Bai Pai and Deputy Speaker of the KMT Kaohsiung City Council, Lu Shumei, said in an interview with the China Assessment Agency on the 7th that Wang had never participated in similar activities in the past, and that this time he was willing to stand up but he did not want to see cross-strait relations continue to deteriorate and freeze. Lu Shumei also revealed that before the news came out, Tsai Ing-wen had met with Wang Jinping, and it was not clear what he had discussed.
The Strait Forum was postponed from June to mid-September due to the epidemic. Wang Jinping was interviewed a few days ago to express his willingness to attend the Strait Forum on behalf of the Kuomintang, and to contribute to the peaceful exchanges between the two sides of the Strait. However, the Kuomintang has not yet finalized the decision. Party Chairman Jiang Qichen stated that he would report to the outside world after the decision was "still under discussion."
Lu Shumei said in an interview with the China News Agency that Wang was actually quite happy to have this opportunity to represent the KMT at the Straits Forum. Cross-strait relations under the DPP’s full rule are far from the previous KMT’s line. Wang hopes that if the trip is really successful this time, it will be able to bring back some results of cross-strait welfare and people's livelihood and ease the hostile deadlock through forum exchanges.
Lu Shumei said that as far as she knows, the current attitude of the DPP Cai authorities on whether to allow Wang Jinping to go to the Strait Forum seems to have not yet reached the point of "really willing to let Wang Chenghang."
Regarding Cai’s statement that he had met Wang, Cai’s Office spokesperson Zhang Dunhan said that Cai and Wang did not meet before the news came out. However, Cai Ban was reluctant to explain further, only emphasizing that before the news of Wang Jinping's presence at the Straits Forum came out, Cai Ing-wen did not meet with Wang Jinping. Another green camper said that if Tsai Ing-wen wanted Wang Jinping to go to mainland China, the MAC would not have been so tough before.
Tsai Ing-wen once asked if Wang Jinping would be the chairman of the SEF during his first term, but Wang Jinping refused. When Li Dawei was transferred to the Secretary-General of the Cai Office a few days ago, it was once again reported that Cai Ing-wen asked Wang Jinping whether he would be the chairman of the SEF, but Wang Jinping denied it.
