On April 23, Lai Qingde's fifth wave of "new cabinet" personnel plan was announced, and the "person who took the blame" in the 2.14 ship collision incident was reused, and it was none other than Lai Qingde, the boss of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party, who was about to take office on May 20.
Here's how it happened. After the "14 February vicious ship collision incident," relations between the Taiwan authorities and the mainland deteriorated rapidly, and several bigwigs of the Taiwan authorities, such as Tsai Ing-wen and Chiu Kuo-cheng, did not come forward or give explanations, like an ostrich with its head stuck in the sand. At the front desk was Guan Biling, the person in charge of the "Maritime Affairs Commission."
Guan Biling estimated that she had obtained the true biography of a certain master's "back-the-back technique", and in the face of heavy pressure from the mainland and multiple evidence of the collision, she did not blush or beat her heart, and openly made up lies and nonsense to the media until the heat of the collision incident weakened.
Perhaps Guan Biling's performance in the ship collision incident attracted Lai Qingde's attention, and then she continued to be in charge of Taiwan's "Maritime Affairs Commission."
In fact, Lai Qingde is not "cold" at all to some members of Tsai Ing-wen's team, especially Qiu Guozheng, who is the head of Taiwan's defense department, Lai Qingde can't wait to find someone to replace him now!
Some time ago, Qiu Guozheng's son was arrested for soliciting prostitution, and under multiple pressures, Qiu Guozheng asked Tsai Ing-wen to resign, but Tsai Ing-wen refused.
An insider revealed that Qiu Guozheng had asked US arms dealers to supply goods within the specified time, which made the United States very unhappy. This time, the "prostitutes" are suspected to be under the command of external forces, and it is self-evident who they are. At this time, Lai Qingde was in need of the support of the United States, so he also stepped on Qiu Guozheng a few times to "flatter" the United States.
A well-known scholar in Taiwan has the same view as Tudou, and Lai Qingde's retention of Guan Biling reveals strange things everywhere.
Lai Qingde may have two plans to choose to stay with Guan Biling, one is to continue to let Guan Biling "carry the pot", in Lai Qingde's eyes, this pot always needs to be carried by one person, since Guan Biling is good at carrying the pot, then continue to carry it, you can't let your descendants carry it!
Second, Guan Biling is one of the few people who have repeatedly spoken harshly to the mainland in the ship collision incident, so by keeping Guan Biling in office, she can send a tough signal to the mainland! This means that Lai Qingde does not intend to give in to the mainland on the "14 February vicious ship collision incident," but will continue to be tough.
For example, he has appointed a number of Taiwan independence elements to the "cabinet," such as Gu Lixiong and Wu Zhaoxie, who belong to the kind of stubborn "Taiwan independence" elements, and Gu Lixiong may be the responsible person of Taiwan's defense department.
In addition, after Ma Ying-jeou's successful visit to China, a number of KMT bigwigs also plan to visit the mainland, including Fu Kunqing, chief of the Kuomintang "legislature" caucus, who plans to bring more than 20 KMT "legislators" to visit the mainland.
A number of Taiwan media and well-known Taiwan scholar Qiu Yi have revealed to the public that a number of Kuomintang "legislators" have decided to withdraw from the "mainland visit group," and only about five people remain to visit the mainland with Fu Kunqing. The Kuomintang that withdrew from the "position" said that it was worried about affecting its work, but Qiu Yi believed that Lai Qingde and his gang were threatening them with the "anti-infiltration law," and that this was Lai Qingde's secret competition with the mainland and showing toughness to the mainland.
When Lai Qingde showed a tough stance on the mainland, he never thought that the backyard was on fire, and his partner Xiao Meiqin was deeply involved in the "moonshine case".
It turned out that Hsiao Mei-qin had served as Taiwan's so-called "representative to the United States," and that in March, she had shipped her personal belongings from the United States to Taiwan, probably because the goods were too "abundant." Through Taiwan's "Ministry of Foreign Affairs," she asked the "Customs Affairs Bureau" to exempt herself from the inspection of illicit liquor.
Taiwan's "Ministry of Foreign Affairs" and "Ministry of Finance" denied it one after another, arguing that Hsiao Mei-qin had been transferred back to Taiwan and could apply for customs clearance for liquor for her own use in accordance with regulations, and that the process could only pass the examination.
However, some Taiwanese media do not seem to want to let go of Xiao Meiqin, hyping that this is a copy of the "special plane illicit cigarette case". In 2019, the special service personnel of Taiwan's "Presidential Palace" guard office and "National Security Bureau" used Tsai Ing-wen's special plane to sell tens of thousands of illicit cigarettes, and the amount involved amounted to more than NT$600.
Tsai Ing-wen's office said that the illicit cigarettes were "overbought" by the staff in order to calm the incident as soon as possible, but this explanation completely angered Taiwanese citizens, because people with a little IQ also knew that this was by no means "overbought". After the investigation of the matter was clear, Peng Shengzhu, the "director of the National Security Bureau", chose to take the blame and resigned, and many other people adjusted their positions.
At present, what Lai Qingde and Xiao Meiqin are most worried about is probably not the media reporters, but the Kuomintang and the People's Party, who are watching them with a tiger's eye; who dares to guarantee that they will not make a big fuss about this matter in the future? The question is, if the "bootlegging case" is really realized, will Xiao Meiqin also take the blame and resign?
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