On March 14, Tsai Ing-wen met with Ke Wenzhe, and the two sides had a two-hour conversation. In an interview on March 15, Ko Wenzhe said that Tsai Ing-wen personally called him on the first day of this year to invite him to talk. After internal discussions within the People's Party, he agreed to go to the talks, saying that he had no reason to refuse. However, Huang Guochang, the chairman of the People's Party's legislative caucus, immediately scolded the DPP in an online program after the news came out on the 14th. He engaged in a two-pronged strategy. On the one hand, he suppressed the People's Party and Ko Wenzhe, and on the other hand, he said that he wanted to reconcile the political parties. In fact, it was We are just letting everyone take the blame for unresolved policy issues.
Generally speaking, every regional leader in Taiwan will engage in party reconciliation dramas during his term of office, but Tsai Ing-wen has never made such a move in her eight years in office. With only 60 days left to step down, she and the "opposition parties" The leaders' meeting was very unexpected. Overall, this meeting was viewed negatively by all camps on the island, who believed that their own calculations far outweighed the goodwill of reconciliation.
When Jiang Qichen was elected chairman of the Kuomintang, as soon as he took office, he offered to meet with Tsai Ing-wen to discuss various controversial issues on the island at that time. But Tsai Ing-wen flatly refused and said contemptuously that she hoped Jiang Qichen would do a good job in the civil representative work. This also forced the Kuomintang led by Jiang Qichen to promote the "four major referendums" and conduct a comprehensive struggle on controversial issues.
Tsai Ing-wen is about to step down, but she discusses policy issues with the "opposition party" and does not allow Lai Qingde, who is about to take office, to participate. The statement of Lin Zhuoshui, a former member of the Democratic Progressive Party, is "anachronistic and a bit ridiculous." Of course, some people speculate that he may be helping Lai Qingde coordinate the party, exchanging Lai's position in the new team for the support of the People's Party in future policy promotion, such as increasing the proportion of military expenditure, which can also be regarded as completing his explanation to the Americans. Another theory is that Tsai Ing-wen made arrangements in advance to prevent her influence from dissipating after she steps down. The talks with Ko Wenzhe may involve an exchange of power, just like Lee Teng-hui won over the "Taiwan United Party" before stepping down, making it a force to influence politics in the future.
For Ke Wenzhe, this meeting was actually an out-and-out disaster. First of all, this so-called drama of party reconciliation is never a good thing for small parties. Just like Chen Shui-bian's meeting with James Soong of the People's First Party, the outside world suddenly said that the People's Party, symbolized by orange, was "orange green." As a result, the People's First Party, which had considerable strength at the beginning, was doubted by the pan-blue camp, and James Soong was unable to recover. Ke Wenzhe and the People's Party have always advocated party consultation and openness and transparency. This airtight meeting that was kept secret in advance also shattered Ke Wenzhe's "personality" once again. It’s no wonder that Huang Guochang cursed as soon as he learned the news, because he knew that both parties had requested confidentiality, but the news was exclusively reported by Mirror Weekly, a media closely related to Tsai Ing-wen. Some celebrities also believe that Ke Wenzhe was fooled by Tsai Ing-wen, because the report only mentioned the issues discussed by the two parties, but did not mention the differences between the two parties. This gave the outside world the feeling that Ke Wenzhe would endorse these issues discussed.
Ke Wenzhe has been very negative during this period, but he lacks a personal stage, resulting in a lack of news coverage. This may be one of the reasons why he agreed to meet with Tsai Ing-wen, which indeed created a news hot spot. But is this hot spot good or bad for Ke Wenzhe? People are free to judge.
Tsai Ing-wen also proposed to meet Zhu Lilun, but Zhu just said that everyone should find a suitable time. The spokesperson of the Kuomintang was not polite at all, criticizing that "this goodwill was eight years late."
Various malpractices under Tsai Ing-wen’s administration have begun to break out.
After the general election on the island, a large number of new democratic representatives have entered the legislative body. The Kuomintang has returned to being the largest party in the legislative body, and has the largest number of new members of the Democratic Party. According to regulations, when the new Democratic Party renovates its office, the legislative body will subsidize the renovation costs. To receive this fee, one has to accept the decoration company designated by the general affairs department of the legislative body. However, the cost is high, and the gap with private companies is often several times higher, leading to repeated complaints from the people. As the head of the legislative body, Hanguo-yu directly replaced Zhou Jie, the "general affairs director" of the legislative body, after the warning was ineffective.
’s personnel transfer this time has aroused public discussion.The key is not that the renovation costs are ridiculously high, but that the bureaucracy under the control of the Democratic Progressive Party in the past was a self-absorbed act of corruption and self-enrichment.
There is a foundation under the legislative body of Taiwan, which has always been managed by the head of the legislative body. It has been a common practice for many years that when the head of a legislative body changes, the chairman of the relevant foundation also changes accordingly. Although the amount managed by this foundation is not very large, it has become a very useful "secret wallet" because of its freedom of use. For the past eight years, the Democratic Progressive Party has an absolute majority in the legislative body, so it has been controlling this foundation. Now that the head of the legislative body has been changed to Han Kuo-yu of the Kuomintang, it is said that the foundation should also change its chairman accordingly. However, the DPP did not want to give up this "secret wallet" and made many small moves. It even held a press conference to protest, questioning whether Han Kuo-yu's becoming the chairman of the foundation would make the allocation of funds unsustainable. Then the DPP sent people to communicate with Hanguo Yu many times, and also made many small moves in the arrangement of directors, and arranged some of its unsuccessful democratic representatives to serve as directors of the foundation. On the one hand, they reward their own people, and on the other hand, they also hope to use their numerical advantage to contain Hanguo Yu.
Why does the DPP look so ugly? Representative Wang Hongwei of the Kuomintang said that those who applied for fees from this foundation in the past include the former head of the legislative body You Xikun, You Xikun’s son You Bingtao, former deputy secretary-general of the Democratic Progressive Party Lin Feifan (Lin Feifan is a director of the foundation), and Shen Boyang, the second-placed representative of the Democratic Progressive Party regardless of district, is the representative of the Democratic Party. It turns out that they are really "protecting food".
At first, there were a lot of controversies over the procurement of vaccines on the island. In order to find out how much the DPP authorities spent on purchasing vaccines, the blue and green parties even "confronted" many times. Even when the legislative body passed the approval to review the relevant contracts, the materials submitted by the relevant departments of the DPP also blackened out the key information, making it ultimately a confusing account.
Media person Wu Zijia received a revelation, alleging that the unit price of the vaccines purchased by the Taiwan authorities, Chen Shizhong, the then commander-in-chief of epidemic prevention, was far higher than the reasonable price, and was suspected of corruption. Chen Shizhong was dissatisfied and sued Wu Zijia. During the recent court session, relevant documents had to be released, and it was discovered that the unit price of the contract signed by Chen Shizhong at that time was US$13 higher than the unit price of each dose purchased by Terry Gou in the future. For that contract alone, the total price was more than $60 million higher.
What’s interesting is that Chen Shizhong argued that although he bought it expensively, he cannot be said to be corrupt. When purchasing vaccines at that time, Su Zhenchang, then the head of the administrative agency, and a New Taipei citizen named Wu (suspected to be Wu Bingrui, a descendant of Su Zhenchang) were deeply involved in the procurement. As the lawsuit progresses, these people will be called as witnesses and more information will have to be revealed. Therefore, Chen Shizhong may really have the confidence to say that he is not corrupt, because there are others who are corrupt.
Author丨Xu Yi, special editor of Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News
The key is not that the renovation costs are ridiculously high, but that the bureaucracy under the control of the Democratic Progressive Party in the past was a self-absorbed act of corruption and self-enrichment.
There is a foundation under the legislative body of Taiwan, which has always been managed by the head of the legislative body. It has been a common practice for many years that when the head of a legislative body changes, the chairman of the relevant foundation also changes accordingly. Although the amount managed by this foundation is not very large, it has become a very useful "secret wallet" because of its freedom of use. For the past eight years, the Democratic Progressive Party has an absolute majority in the legislative body, so it has been controlling this foundation. Now that the head of the legislative body has been changed to Han Kuo-yu of the Kuomintang, it is said that the foundation should also change its chairman accordingly. However, the DPP did not want to give up this "secret wallet" and made many small moves. It even held a press conference to protest, questioning whether Han Kuo-yu's becoming the chairman of the foundation would make the allocation of funds unsustainable. Then the DPP sent people to communicate with Hanguo Yu many times, and also made many small moves in the arrangement of directors, and arranged some of its unsuccessful democratic representatives to serve as directors of the foundation. On the one hand, they reward their own people, and on the other hand, they also hope to use their numerical advantage to contain Hanguo Yu.
Why does the DPP look so ugly? Representative Wang Hongwei of the Kuomintang said that those who applied for fees from this foundation in the past include the former head of the legislative body You Xikun, You Xikun’s son You Bingtao, former deputy secretary-general of the Democratic Progressive Party Lin Feifan (Lin Feifan is a director of the foundation), and Shen Boyang, the second-placed representative of the Democratic Progressive Party regardless of district, is the representative of the Democratic Party. It turns out that they are really "protecting food".
At first, there were a lot of controversies over the procurement of vaccines on the island. In order to find out how much the DPP authorities spent on purchasing vaccines, the blue and green parties even "confronted" many times. Even when the legislative body passed the approval to review the relevant contracts, the materials submitted by the relevant departments of the DPP also blackened out the key information, making it ultimately a confusing account.
Media person Wu Zijia received a revelation, alleging that the unit price of the vaccines purchased by the Taiwan authorities, Chen Shizhong, the then commander-in-chief of epidemic prevention, was far higher than the reasonable price, and was suspected of corruption. Chen Shizhong was dissatisfied and sued Wu Zijia. During the recent court session, relevant documents had to be released, and it was discovered that the unit price of the contract signed by Chen Shizhong at that time was US$13 higher than the unit price of each dose purchased by Terry Gou in the future. For that contract alone, the total price was more than $60 million higher.
What’s interesting is that Chen Shizhong argued that although he bought it expensively, he cannot be said to be corrupt. When purchasing vaccines at that time, Su Zhenchang, then the head of the administrative agency, and a New Taipei citizen named Wu (suspected to be Wu Bingrui, a descendant of Su Zhenchang) were deeply involved in the procurement. As the lawsuit progresses, these people will be called as witnesses and more information will have to be revealed. Therefore, Chen Shizhong may really have the confidence to say that he is not corrupt, because there are others who are corrupt.
Author丨Xu Yi, special editor of Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News
