Recently, there has been a big news in the basketball industry in Taiwan Province. The former No. 1 pick of the American Professional Basketball League Dwight Howard signed a one-year contract with the Taiwan Taoyuan Yongfeng Cloud Leopards and became a basketball player in the island. The largest US foreign aid in history. However, the Taoyuan Yongfeng Clouded Leopard Club he signed has a great background. The company behind it is Taiwan Cloud Leopard Energy Technology Company, and its chairman is Lai Jinlin, the former representative of the legislature of the Democratic Progressive Party. The Lai family is also considered to be a political family on the island. Lai Jinlin not only served as the representative of public opinion in the legislature of the DPP, but also a colleague of Tsai Ing-wen. When Chen Ju, a leader of the DPP, worked at the Taiwan Labor Commission, Lai Jinlin was her deputy. Now Lai Jinlin's daughter Lai Pinyu has also inherited her father's political mantle and has become a powerful representative of public opinion in the legislature. And Howard joined the Taiwan basketball team may also have hidden political conspiracy calculations on the island, what is the specific situation, let me tell you later.
Howard joined the Taiwan basketball team
The history of Yunlin Lai's fortune
Lai Jinlin was born in Yunlin County, Taiwan Province in 1962 and graduated from the Department of Political Science of National Taiwan University. Since Chiang Kai-shek died in Taiwan and Chiang Ching-kuo took over power, the social atmosphere on the island began to be filled with a wave of "opposition to the Kuomintang". In addition to the island's elite in order to compete with the Kuomintang, compete for power. Dissatisfaction with the Kuomintang among workers at the grassroots level is also rising. After the rapid economic take-off in the island, although the wages of workers have risen, they have to bear heavy work pressure and the pressure of business owners. The working hours are getting longer and longer, and the holidays are getting fewer and fewer. Around 1980, Taiwanese companies hired a large number of informal workers to reduce costs in the name of "labor flexibility", which also made workers complain. and their remuneration is a drop in the bucket compared to business owners, not worth mentioning. Therefore, in order to obtain more holidays, more suitable working environment and more humane working hours, they also embarked on the road of opposing the Kuomintang. The Miaoli passenger strike in 1988 was a concentrated outbreak of contradictions, and Lai Jinlin also participated in the successive labor movements.
Worker protests
The DPP also reached a cooperation agreement with the island's labor movement at the beginning of its establishment, and the two parties joined hands to attack the dominant Kuomintang. After joining the DPP, Lai Jinlin once served as the secretary general of the Taiwan Labor Movement Support Association, and even served in public opinion organs at all levels on the island. In 1999, Lai Jinlin entered the legislature of Taiwan Province as a representative of public opinion. In 2002, Lai Jinlin was successfully re-elected, and the current leader of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, also became a representative of public opinion in the legislature in 2004. The two are colleagues. In 2000, when Chen Ju, a leader of the DPP, served as the director of the Labor Committee of Taiwan Province's administrative body, the focus of the labor movement at that time was mainly on shortening working hours and reducing work pressure. According to the "World Competitiveness Annual Report", at that time, the average working hours of ordinary people in Taiwan Province exceeded 2,200 hours a year, and many people worked overtime on their rest days. In order to alleviate the sharp labor-management conflict, Chen Ju invited Lai Jinlin, who has rich experience in the labor movement, to serve as her part-time deputy director to support herself.
Lai Jinlin
Lai Jinlin was Chen Ju's deputy, and naturally he has also become a key backup cadre of the "New Trend" faction of the DPP. But compared to politics, Lai Jinlin prefers the business world. He successively served as the honorary president of the Taiwan Business International Development Association and the deputy general manager of Shuofeng Digital Technology Company. In 2016, during his tenure at Shuofeng Digital Technology Company, he was also investigated by the Taiwan authorities for suspected internal stock trading. However, with Tsai Ing-wen's successful ascension in 2016, these old DPP generals have been activated one after another, and Lai Jinlin has also been appointed to an important position by Tsai Ing-wen. He successfully served as the chairman of Taiwan Shennao International Corporation in September 2016, which is a subsidiary company of controlled by Chunghwa Telecom , a Taiwanese public entity. Lai Jinlin's salary exceeds one year's salary.After two million yuan NT . He is also considered by the outside world to be one of the beneficiaries of Tsai Ing-wen's politics of paying servants. At the same time, he also founded Yunbao Energy Technology Company. Taiwan's legislature's solar panels are contracted by this company. In 2021, it was discovered that the solar panels produced by Yunbao Energy Technology Co., Ltd. actually used the inverter of a well-known technology company in mainland China.
Lai Jinlin and Yunbao Energy
The Lai family has been working hard in the business world for a long time in recent years, which also involves the conspiracy of the DPP in the political and business circles. Lai Jinlin's wife is Wu Ruping, a well-known media personality in Taiwan, and the eldest daughter Lai Pinyu has also taken over her father's political mantle in recent years. Lai Pinyu was born in Yunlin County in 1992 and is a representative of Taiwan independence youth in the DPP. In 2020, she was successfully elected as the representative of public opinion in Taiwan's legislature, and she is the youngest elected representative of the public opinion in this session of the legislature. Lai Pinyu has been involved in political and social movements since high school, creating conflicts in cross-strait relations for a long time, and acting as the vanguard of "Taiwan independence". In 2013, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are about to sign an agreement in the field of trade in services, and Chen Deming, the chairman of the ARATS, also made a special trip to Taiwan. While Lai Pinyu, Huang Yanru, Lai Yufen and others led more than 20 students to the gate of the SEF in Taiwan Province to protest, Lai Pinyu and others even moved hands with the police who were there to maintain order. In June 2014, Zhang Zhijun arrived in Taiwan Province for a visit, and Lai Pinyu and others repeated their old tricks and intensified their efforts.
Lai Pinyu
Lai Pinyu and others inquired about Zhang Zhijun's itinerary plan in advance, they pulled iron chains and ropes on the only way to block the road, and wrapped the iron chains around their waists to prevent Zhang Zhijun's motorcade from advancing. . However, their plan was once again destroyed by the Taiwanese police escorting the convoy. The police who arrived at the scene broke open the chains within ten minutes, carried Lai Pinyu and others away, and arrested them. The local court in Taiwan also found them to be suspected of "impeding the safety of public exchanges" in January 2015, and the procuratorate also filed a public prosecution against them. But Taiwan's courts are also an appendage of the island's politics, moving with the political winds. DPP Tsai Ing-wen won a big victory in 2016, and the Taiwan District Court also commuted the acquittal of Lai Pinyu and others on February 9, 2017. Lai Pinyu also successfully attracted the attention of the public with this incident. She also became the assistant of Lin Changzuo, the legislature representative of the Taiwan independence group "The Power of the Times", and has since entered the political arena.
Lin Changzuo
In 2019, Lai Pinyu accepted the DPP's invitation to join the DPP and run for the representative of the Taiwan legislature. Her opponent is Li Yongping, a senior general of the Kuomintang. Lai Pinyu narrowly defeated Li Yongping by 2,000 votes, becoming the youngest representative of public opinion in the legislature this year. Following the election of , Pinyu Lai joined the Legislative Council's Education and Culture Committee and served as the convener of the committee on March 7, 2022. She also became the campaign headquarters spokesperson for Lin Jialong, a candidate for mayor of New Taipei in 2022, and she was in the limelight for a while. On the surface, Lai Pinyu's election is to inherit the political mantle of his father Lai Jinlin, but in fact it is also an important step in the collusion between officials and businessmen of the DPP. , the father and daughter, used their political and business connections to start fighting for the DPP's interests in various fields.
The DPP's layout in the cultural and sports circles
The DPP has been promoting the strategy of "de-Sinicization" and "cultural Taiwan independence" in recent years, and they want to attract the attention of young people on the island. So they use animation, the Internet and all kinds of things that young people like to please young people. For example, Lai Pinyu appeared in front of the public with "role-playing" makeup many times during the campaign. One of the important proposals she promoted in the legislature was to seek benefits for the island's famous Pinwheel Theater, which is also an important tool for the DPP to promote "de-Sinicization" and "cultural Taiwan independence". The Pinwheel Troupe was established in 1992, which is a performance troupe whose main content is children's plays. However, in recent years, the relationship between it and the DPP has become closer and closer.During the important celebrations of the Progressive Party, he is in charge of dancing and repertoire. In 2020, the warehouse of New Taipei City was destroyed by fire. As a representative of public opinion, Lai Pinyu personally sought warehouse land for the Paper Windmill Theatre. In the end, she even persuaded Taiwan's defense department to lease the old third ammunition depot in Xizhi District, New Taipei City to the Paper Windmill Theatre. It can be seen that this The energy of the troupe.
The Pinwheel Troupe
The Pinwheel Troupe has also won a large number of government bids since Tsai Ing-wen came to power. According to statistics, it has won 114 government bids in just five years, totaling more than 280 million yuan. New Taiwan Dollars. The Pinwheel Theatre Company can obtain such a large budget, and saying that it has nothing to do with the Tsai Ing-wen authorities may not be convincing to the public. And the main creators of the Paper Windmill Theater, Wu Nianzhen, Ke Yizheng, and others are all supporters of "Taiwan independence" with a clear stand. The political color of this troupe is self-evident. In November 2022, Taipei Mayor Chen Shizhong, a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, was photographed clasping his fingers with a married woman at the door of a high-end hotel, with an ambiguous attitude. And the dinner party that night was convened by the Paper Windmill Theatre. The current head of the Paper Windmill Theatre, Ren Jiancheng and the CEO Zhang Yimin were both present. This fully shows that the relationship between the Pinwheel Troupe and the DPP is by no means general, and should already be one of the important propaganda mouthpieces in the DPP. The DPP's black hand has long been extended to the cultural and sports circles in Taiwan, and its purpose is naturally to use these fields as a medium to sell the "cultural Taiwan independence" argument.
Chen Shizhong accepted a banquet from the Pinwheel Theatre
Recently, American basketball star Howard signed with the Taiwan Professional Basketball League T1 League Taoyuan Yongfeng Cloud Leopards. According to Taiwan media reports, Howard's monthly salary is more than 200,000 US dollars. According to regulations, the salary ceiling for foreign aid in the Taiwan league is 20,000 US dollars. This time, the official gave Howard the green light. Combining with the political and economic power of the Lai family, this green light came as no surprise. And this Yongfeng Clouded Leopard Team is said to be a new team that has just been formed, and the facilities and equipment are not complete. Howard's arrival also surprised many people and felt incredible. But if his joining is linked to island politics, it seems to make sense. Howard is the biggest foreign aid in the island's basketball history. His participation has attracted a lot of media attention to the island. This is the so-called "let the world see Taiwan" that the DPP has been promoting for a long time. and the backstage of this team are representatives of public opinion and political families in the DPP, so what Howard can get is probably far more than the numbers in the contract.
The arrival of American star Howard
Howard can also bring practical propaganda value to the DPP. They can use this matter to attract the votes of young people, and at the same time exaggerate the contribution of the sports department of the DPP. basketball also has a large number of fans on the island of Taiwan, and this year coincides with the election of county mayors and county councillors in Taiwan. The news of Howard's signing broke out ten days before the election, which can also play a certain bonus role in the election. Today's DPP is already facing the tension of a dead end, and it is also valuable to be able to save one more vote for them. Sure enough, after Howard's plane landed at Taoyuan Airport, a large number of fans arrived to greet him, and the media also dug up the boss behind the Taoyuan Yongfeng Cloud Leopards team is Lai Jinlin. and Lai Jinlin and Lai Pinyu have been in the business, cultural and political circles in recent years, so this drama of American basketball stars joining the Taiwan Basketball League is very likely to have the DPP's election considerations and calculations behind it. But now there are only 13 days left until the election. If the DPP wants to play any more tricks, I am afraid it will inevitably fail miserably.
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