This is the 135th issue of "Bay Area Wangqu".
Tsai Ing-wen was revealed to discuss the allocation of official positions when she met Ke Wenzhe
Taiwan media broke the news today (1st) that when Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen invited Ko Wenzhe, chairman of the People's Party, to talk with him in March, she actually discussed with him the allocation of the "Communications and Communications Committee (NCC) members" of the Taiwan authorities, and personally said to Ke Wenzhe: "The next four deputies, 2 seats for the Kuomintang, 1 seat for the People's Party, and 1 seat for the Democratic Progressive Party, is this good?" However, the report said that the People's Party rejected this proposal at the time, because they believed that the communications department should not let the DPP be "rotten".
Tsai Ing-wen and Ke Wenzhe met Source: Taiwan's "China Times News Network"
Huang Kuo-chang, chief of the People's Party caucus in Taiwan's legislature, pointed out today (1st) at a joint meeting of the departments in charge of reviewing communications and communications in Taiwan's legislature that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said that the departments in charge of communications and communications should not be represented in proportion to political parties, and that they should be independent and professional, but now they are infiltrating politics into the media. He even criticized the DPP for wanting the party and government to withdraw from the media in the past, but now, as Ke Wenzhe said, "the party and government are the media," and the green camp must not only control the television station, but also every faction must have a television station. He further pointed out that it is precisely because of such a sick structure that some media tycoons have arrogantly stated that the issuance of the "Mirror TV" license is the will of the leader of the Taiwan region, not the will of the responsible person of the executive department.
This year, Taiwan's communications and communications department coincides with the resignation of the "committee members," and a total of four "committee members," including the principal and deputy responsible persons, need to be re-nominated. The administrative body of the Taiwan authorities announced the nominees last night (April 30), including the current deputy head Weng Baizong, Chen Binghong, a distinguished professor of the Institute of Mass Communication of Taiwan Normal University, Luo Huiwen, an assistant professor of the Department of Communication Management of Shih Hsin University in Taiwan, and Zhan Yilian, director of the Business Management Division of the Department of Communication and Communication, The list has been sent to the Taiwan legislature for review, and Weng Baizong is designated as the person in charge, Chen Binghong is the deputy person in charge, and the term of office is from August 1 this year to July 31, 2028.
But this list has sparked criticism from blue and white. Huang Guochang said that this is a highly corrupt nomination, which is really sad for the Taiwan region. Lai Shih-pao, a representative of the Chinese Kuomintang, said that such a personnel arrangement cannot make people expect that the future departments in charge of Taiwan's communications and communications departments will be able to exercise their functions and powers independently and objectively, but will succumb to the "black hand" behind the DPP, and he personally advocates that it should be completely blocked.
Earlier, it was reported that the internal candidate for Taiwan's communications and communications department was vetoed by the DPP's own family, and the DPP staged a farce of "infighting." Taiwan media bluntly said that the manipulation of the political black hand behind this supposed detached and independent institution is clearly exposed. According to a report by Taiwan's "United Daily News" on 28 April, Liu Baili, director of the four institutes of the "Taiwan Academy of Economics," was originally designated as the person in charge, but on the 26th, it was reported that Weng Baizong, the current deputy director, was expected to be nominated for a re-election and served as the next person in charge, and Liu Baili was pulled down. Huang Guochang pointed out that this reversal farce has the strong intervention of cable TV system tycoons full of "green value", so the change of generals before the battle is obviously not groundless.
The current person in charge, Chen Yaoxiang, was burdened with the political stance of shutting down Zhongtian News and publicly supporting China Television, and was accused of escorting the pro-green media "Mirror TV", and was even listed as a defendant for dereliction of duty; Lai Shih-pao bluntly said that this is a blatant proof that politics has intervened in Taiwan's communications and communications departments.
"Mirror TV" obtained its license in early January 2022, but during the application period, there were many rumors that high-level party and government officials intervened and pressured Taiwan's communications and communication departments. In September of the same year, public opinion representative Chen Jiaohua released the audio recordings and conversation records of the "Mirror TV" shareholders' meeting suspected to be held on December 17, 2021, accusing the then chairman Pei Wei of mentioning in the meeting that "who will be the head of the administrative department, this case still has to be passed", etc., questioning the high-level intervention of the Taiwan authorities in the case of the competent department of communication and communication to review the license of "Mirror TV", which shocked the society. Subsequently, a third-party appraisal agency determined that the recording file had not been edited or altered.
Previously, the case of Zhongtian News changing the license plate also aroused widespread heated discussions, and it was also considered one of the typical cases of the DPP authorities' political intervention in the media. In November 2020, seven "members" of Taiwan's communications and communication department rejected the renewal of Zhongtian News Channel's license by a 7-0 vote. Taiwan media pointed out that this means that Zhongtian News Channel has disappeared from 52 cable TV channels in Taiwan since 0:00 on December 12, 2020. In this regard, Zheng Liwen, a member of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT), pointed out bluntly that the DPP authorities have pulled out Zhongtian, a "thorn in the side," and that "the DPP, which is in power in an all-round way, looks very ugly!" Taiwan's "China Times News Network" also commented that Taiwan's regional television station is now "green," and that Zhongtian is the most courageous "thorn" in the few non-green media.
The commentary pointed out that if the DPP still wants to take control of Taiwan's telecommunications department by continuing to think in the past, it will not only be disappointing, but will also lay the groundwork for future controversies and conflicts. The article says that Taiwan society can no longer tolerate the wanton behavior of Taiwan's communications and communications departments, and that an independent organ that does not have credibility will not only be unable to be defeated and retrained, but will also have no value in existing, so it might as well be abolished directly.
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council responded to the mainland's ambiguity in opening up tourism, which caused public outrage
When questioned by the Taiwan legislature, Mainland Affairs Council Chairman Chiu Tai-san falsely claimed that the mainland side not only "attached conditions" but also "limited areas," and since the mainland's operation methods are different from those in the past, the Taiwan region must further clarify and respond after appropriate discussions.
Qiu Taisan's response immediately aroused strong doubts from the public opinion representatives present, and Gao Jin Sumei, a public opinion representative without party membership, could not help but bombard Qiu Taisan for more than five minutes, severely criticizing the DPP authorities' move as "manipulating the mainland's goodwill and a very malicious policy." She bluntly said that the DPP authorities did not hesitate to kidnap 220,000 employees in the tourism industry to use them as human shields and cannon fodder, and the DPP's malice has put a heavy burden on these 220,000 families. Niu Xuting, a representative of the Chinese Kuomintang, also accused the MAC of not making any response to the mainland's goodwill so far, saying that the pragmatic way to resolve these matters should start from a small place, exchange goodwill for goodwill, and then gradually open up after there is a basis for mutual trust, but it cannot fail to respond to it. However, the MAC only prevaricated on the grounds that it "cannot respond now."
When the Chinese Kuomintang delegation visited the mainland at the end of last month, the mainland announced a series of measures to benefit Taiwan, which was described by the political and media circles in the Taiwan region as "opening a door" for possible cross-strait exchanges. Among them, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced that it will take the lead in resuming travel for Fujian residents to Matsu, and resume group travel for Fujian residents to Taiwan after the resumption of direct sea passenger flights from Pingtan to Taiwan.
Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" pointed out that the DPP authorities' so-called "opening up to the mainland in announcing the resumption of travel to Matsu for Fujian residents is too small" is obviously to fool the people in the Taiwan region. The premise of promoting the normalization of cross-strait tourism is to fully restore cross-strait direct flight points; as the saying goes, "the road leads to financial connections," and if the transportation is not convenient, who will travel to Taiwan? However, the DPP authorities have been slow to fully restore the cross-strait direct flight points, and so far more than 40 direct flight points have not been restored due to obstruction by the Taiwan side, causing serious inconvenience to the people traveling between the two sides of the strait, and they have also shirked the responsibility to the mainland, saying that "the mainland has opened up too little." In fact, the main culprit is the DPP itself.
Author丨Lin Shuqi, the chief writer of Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News