Just as Donald Trump, the former US president and Republican presidential candidate, was accused of calling on the island to pay protection money, Taiwanese media revealed that, yang Yishan, William Lai’s confidant and now deputy secretary-general of the DPP, is set to take over as deputy Taipei representative to the US. The appointment raised questions on the island.
The 45-year-old joined the DPP’s staff when Chen Shui-bian was in power, according to Taiwan’s Yonhap news agency, during his tenure as “Legislator” and “Minister of Culture”, Cheng Li-chun, “Vice-premier of the Executive Yuan”, served as deputy director of the “Legislator” office and special committee of the “Ministry of Culture” respectively, in recent years, as a highly trusted political aide to Lin Chia-lung, the “Foreign Minister”, he was Taichung City Dadun Cultural Center Secretary to Taichung’s mayor. After William Lai became DPP chairman last year, Yang Yishan was recruited as deputy secretary-general. Xu Liming, the former DPP secretary-general, resigned earlier this year and Yang was appointed acting secretary-general by Lai for more than five months, ms William Lai’s continued appointment as deputy secretary-general of the DPP after her inauguration in May “Clearly shows that she is well liked by Ms Yeung”.
Yang Yishan, infographic
Wang Hongwei, a KMT legislator, said on the 17th that if the news that Yang Yishan, deputy secretary-general of the DPP, had taken over as deputy representative in the US was true, it meant that William Lai would send his confidants to “Supervise the army” in the US, relations with the United States will no longer be in the hands of Lai’s deputy, Hsiao Bi-khim. However, Yang Yishan was not a“Diplomat” and her position in the US representative office was so important. Could it be that because she was a core staff member, she could turn the“Deputy secretary-general of the party into a deputy representative in the US”? Wang Hongwei said that the“King’s men and horses” had overstepped the civil service system by parachuting into important posts abroad, recalling the turmoil caused by the appointment of Zhao Yixiang, an interpreter of the Tsai Ing-wen administration, as head of the political section of the office in the US, “At that time, the CAI administration would rather be criticized by all circles to hire Zhao Yixiang, its results in the United States, it is hard to recall.”.
Jie Wenji, a former representative of Taipei in New Zealand, said that foreign affairs attached great importance to experience, without which one might not even read official documents and telegrams, and would become a burden on the whole system. He warned that even the US might not trust Ms William Lai, given her background. She would not help the foreign affairs system by sending people to monitor the foreign pavilion, but “If the DPP likes it, we can send a watermelon”.
More notable is whether Washington agrees with William Lai’s personnel plan and whether Yang can gain us trust, which is also crucial to the future development of taiwan-us relations, the taiwan-based newspaper said on the 18th.
At the same time, concerns about taiwan-us relations have been raised on the island as Donald Trump’s statement in an interview that “Taiwan has taken 100 per cent of our chip business. . . it should pay us a protection fee” has grown . Taiwan’s China time electronic daily commented on the 18th that, during Donald Trump’s tenure as US president, he sold at least $21bn in arms to Taiwan, “Giving whatever he wanted and forcing the DPP authorities to pay for what he didn’t want” ”. But Taiwan paid protection fees, but did not buy security, cross-strait military situation is more serious. The article said that with more than three months to go before the US election, Donald Trump had threatened to increase arms sales to Taiwan if elected.
“It’s time for us to wake up from our dream,” Taiwan’s China Times said in a commentary on the 18th under the headline, “The US government has used all means to force TSMC to set up a factory in the US, and the investment required has been increased along with production technology.” “When it comes to the chip industry’s predatory players, if the United States is second, no one dares to say first.”. As for the protection fee, does Taiwan pay less? Tsai Ing-wen spent $25.336 billion on 28 arms sales in eight years. U. S. Think Tank disclosed information that the U. S. arms sales to Taiwan as much as $19.7 billion of the delay, it can be seen that the credibility of the United States. The article recalls Bolton, the former White House National Security Adviser, revealing that Donald Trump dismissed the island as a “Small nib”. “William Lai’s dream has come to an end,” he says in an open outcry. “Dealing with ns is not just free lunch, it’s more expensive.”.