The United States forcibly marketed Taiwan to buy airplanes
Taiwan's "Lianhe Pao" disclosed that in mid-April, the republican chief member of the US Senate Budget Committee, Gli Han, led a delegation to visit Taiwan, and sure enough, the purpose was not simple, and he asked Tsai Ing-wen to buy a Boeing 787 from Taiwan in person, and stressed that it was manufactured in South Carolina. Because Graham is from South Carolina. Another member of the group, Republican Senator Portman from Ohio, said taiwan and the United States must deepen economic relations across the board, but pointed out that Graham's mention of the 787 made in South Carolina "he forgot to say that the engine was made in Ohio." After the delegation returned to the United States, it raised the matter and bluntly said that "I hope that Taiwan will announce the purchase of twenty-four aircraft as soon as possible." This purchase case of up to eight billion US dollars (converted into about 235.3 billion Yuan in Taiwan dollars) is regarded as a new target of the United States to Taiwan after the "Lai Pig". The difference is that in the past, the US government gave taiwan a demand, but now the US states are flocking to make demands on Taiwan. For example, Graham also specifically mentioned that Taiwan is an important part of South Carolina's economy. It is considered to be Taiwan.
However, Taiwan's China Airlines has always used Airbus from Europe, so it has reservations about this purchase.
Interestingly, in the public transcripts of the meeting between the Greham delegation and Tsai Ing-wen, it was found that the procurement of aircraft was taken in the Chinese and English documents with a completely different narrative. In the English draft, Greham asks for an airplane and emphasizes the place of production in order to reflect his role, which seems rude and rude. In the draft Chinese, it emphasizes that taiwan and the United States should assist each other economically, and does not mention the issue of aircraft. This kind of internal and external practices obviously satisfies the needs of American politicians to curry favor with their own voters, and also bullies the green camp masses who may not read English, which is a blatant cover for the Tsai Ing-wen government.
After the Lianhe Pao reported on the incident, the Tsai government seemed a little embarrassed and angry. The spokesman came out to clarify that it is the norm for democratic countries for which members of Congress are concerned about their own country's industries and speak out for their own country's industries, but the normal state of others is to use Taiwan as a "kaizi," and Chen Mingtong, who is in charge of security affairs, simply put on the media reporting this news that has a bearing on public policy and the people's tax payment money, and put on a hat and said that he was doing "cognitive warfare" on behalf of the mainland.
The spread of the epidemic in Taiwan The blue-green war of words is constant
Taiwan's number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a single day on Thursday (April 28) was 11,353, breaking through 10,000 for the first time. Since then, the number of confirmed cases has continued to rise, and the number of new confirmed cases on the 30th has reached 15,149, including 15,033 local cases and 116 cases imported from abroad, and 17,085 new cases on May 1. Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-che has estimated that the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Taipei will reach 500,000 in mid-May.
Taiwan's epidemic prevention situation is obviously getting more and more severe. Chen Xiuxi, a professor at the Public Health Institute of The National Taiwan University of Health and Pre-Hospitals, estimates that the number of infected people in Taiwan may climb to 15%, or about 3.5 million. Chen Shizhong, commander of the island's epidemic prevention command center, did not positively refute the figure proposed by Ke Wenzhe, but said that it seemed disturbing to put forward this number. But he also boasted that Taiwan's non-public health intervention measures are the best in the world, and the population is small, coupled with the excellent vaccination rate and protective performance, the epidemic will not be so bad.
In the past, The epidemic prevention and control in Taiwan was relatively strict, but recently with the spread of the epidemic, it has become unmanageable. It seems that there has also been a change in the epidemic prevention policy, developing in the direction of "lying flat", Tsai Ing-wen said that the focus is on "disaster reduction", and Su Zhenchang said that "the new Taiwan epidemic prevention model". Although Chen Shizhong's statement is very ambiguous, saying that it depends on the situation, but because Omicron is mainly mild, the general direction of the strategy will be "slowly let the epidemic move forward". The epidemic prevention command center led by him then announced that from 00:00 on May 1, the quarantine days of aircrews who received three doses of vaccines were also shortened to "three plus four", and they could return home for three days and one room for inspection, and on the fourth day, they would change to independent health management, but they would have to be screened or PCR daily. Because the number of infected people is too large, they no longer do epidemic mediation and report their whereabouts. And home quick screening instead of isolation. The Tsai administration's ruling team's anti-epidemic policy is vague and unclear, which has also caused some local troubles. The famous Shen Fuxiong ran to meet with Chen Shizhong, trying to figure out Chen Shizhong's epidemic prevention ideas, and after a conversation, Shen Fuxiong was disappointed and came back to write an article saying that meeting Chen Shizhong was a waste of time.
However, with the spread of the epidemic, it has once again been exposed that the authorities are still insufficiently prepared in epidemic prevention materials. For example, fast screening preparations are scarce and expensive. Even Gao Jiayu, the DPP's deputy, called on the authorities to introduce cheap quick screening reagents as soon as possible.
Due to the improper vaccination before, many elderly people died, so that many elderly people on the island did not dare to administer vaccination. Now, because of the need to open up children to vaccinate, it is found that vaccine procurement is still insufficient.
Although the epidemic prevention situation is grim, the blue-green war of words is continuous. Among them, the media person Zhou Yuke's epidemic incident has almost become a farce. Zhou Yuke tested positive and later retested negative several times. A reasonable statement should be that Ke Wenzhe believes that the week is automatically turned yin after too long. But Zhou Yuke is one of the representatives of Taiwan's vicious media culture, and naturally will not miss such an opportunity to hype the news. She thought that there was a problem with the epidemic prevention in New Taipei, so she proposed to sue the New Taipei City Government and scolded mayor Hou Youyi for being a straw bag. Zhou Yuke is obviously not targeting her own epidemic problem, but only helping the DPP to attack the Blue Camp for this year's election.
Taiwanese media personality Zhou Yuke
But on the other hand, some people also questioned that the hospital actually sent doctors to help Zhou Yuke several times to help him re-test after his diagnosis, which did not conform to the rules of Taiwanese doctors and wasted medical resources, so it was suspected that Zhou Yuke used his privileges. Wu Zijia, chairman of Taiwan's "Formosa Boulevard Electronic News," said that if the doctor was sent to Zhou Yuke's home for testing, it was obviously against the regulations, and Zhou Yuke was exercising his privilege. However, if the doctor went to test for Zhou Yuke in a private name, the diagnosis results were not credible, so her test results were still positive.
The blue-green primary results are out
In response to the local "nine-in-one" election at the end of the year, both the blue and green parties have accelerated their nomination operations, and their respective intra-party struggles have also entered a white-hot stage. And some of the party's nomination results began to come out.
In the Primary Election of the Green Camp in Taipei, "Interpreter Brother" Zhao Yixiang passed the line, and Zhao became famous as an interpreter for Tsai Ing-wen's inauguration in 2016, and was subsequently entrusted by Tsai Ing-wen to the United States, and was regarded as a "British" person. However, after Zhao Yixiang returned to Taiwan, he turned to the "Yongyan Society". The "TalkIng Society" has a tendency to fall apart because of the illness of the boss, Lin Kunhai, chairman of Sanli. Therefore, this time, Zhao Yixiang won the second place in the six elections of daan and Wenshan Democratic Progressive Party, which is still worth mentioning.
"Brother Interpreter" Zhao Yixiang
At the same time, Chen Jiaxing, the Internet celebrity "caramel" promoted by the "British", although he has a newcomer weight, he failed to pass the test of the Shilin and Beitou District primary polls in the penultimate second. The last time Taipei elected an Internet celebrity as a parliamentarian, it was "Quaiji" Qiu Weijie. This year, I will no longer strive for re-election. In the past year, in order to win the support of the DPP, "caramel" can be said to have spared no effort to help. However, it still fails, which also shows that the public's acceptance of Internet celebrities has decreased.
The results of the primary election also reflect the strengths and weaknesses of the various factions of the DPP, and for Tsai Ing-wen, who can no longer be re-elected, although her "British system" seems to be growing over the years, it is actually just a collection of scattered soldiers and braves, and will inevitably face the crisis of tree fall and scattering with the downfall of Tsai Ing-wen.
On 27 July, the Central Executive Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) approved a new list of county mayoral candidates, including the nomination of legislative deputy Cai Qichang for taichung mayor and Mindai Zhou Chunmi for Pingtung County, xu Dingzhen as a candidate for Miaoli County Governor and Liu Jianguo as a candidate for Yunlin County Governor. It is a quick cut to the chaos and resolve the internal strife. Among them, such as Zhou Chunmi, once fought with Zhuang Ruixiong and Zhong Jiabin. But the nomination dust settled, and the dispute was over. Cai Qichang is a person of the new trend, and the past mayor of Taichung is Lin Jialong of the "Main Congress", and the two factions have always been in a relationship of water and fire. But after the nomination was over, Cai Qichang went to visit Lin Jialong for benefits and staged a cooperation drama. However, Tsai Qichang has a very low poll in Taichung, so it seems that it cannot pose any threat to the current mayor, Lu Xiuyan. But it can't be said that Lu Xiuyan can win steadily. Taichung local tycoon Yan Qingbiao has been disheartened by the defeat of his son Yan Kuanheng in the Mindai by-election again, and the Attack on the Yan family in this election. Yan Qingbiao announced that he would no longer participate in politics after being re-elected as chairman of the board of directors at the Taichung Dajia Zhenlan Palace Believers' Congress and the provisional board of directors and supervisors on the 24th. The departure of the Yan family is obviously a major loss to the blue camp forces, and it must have caused an impact on the KMT's election.
Lu Xiuyan and Cai Qichang
When Luo Zhiqiang was trying to win the nomination for mayor of Taoyuan, he directly confronted Zhu Lilun, the chairman of the Kuomintang who was not optimistic about him, which obviously caused great harm to both of them, and Zhu Lilun's polls reached a new low, leaving only 3%. And Luo Zhiqiang did not get any benefits. Lu Yuling, who was optimistic about the local forces of the Blue Camp in Taoyuan, officially announced that she was fighting for the nomination of the Kuomintang, which was a head-on war with Luo Zhiqiang. Luo Zhiqiang, who was once a high-voted member of the National Assembly in Taipei City, did not re-elect this time, handing over the baton to his assistant Yang Zhidou, but the recent primary election also announced an emergency. It somewhat reflects that local voters are actually a little disappointed in Luo Zhiqiang.
Luo Zhiqiang
The KMT has not had a good candidate in Kaohsiung, and previously wanted to invite Li Sichuan, the vice mayor of Han Hanyu when he was mayor, to come out of the mountains, but Li had another career and finally refused. Today, the morale of the Kuomintang is low, and no one is willing to take the lead. Instead, Zhang Yazhong, who had always said that he did not choose the head of the local government, began to relax and expressed his willingness to consider it.
The author 丨 Xu Yi, Shenzhen Satellite TV direct news special chief writer
Editor 丨 Liu Ying