Taiwan“Premier” Zhuo Rongtai recently chartered a special plane to visit Japan to watch a baseball game, which continues to ferment at home and abroad. The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council explicitly pointed out the other day that Zhuo Rongtai’s visit is a manifestation of the DPP authorities’ “Seeking independence from outside”. Under the pretext of a“Private agenda,” they actually carried out a“Independence” provocation, his behavior is“Cock crowing and dog stealing, and it is disgraceful.”. A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry said Zhuo had“Secretly and surreptitiously gone to Japan to engage in ‘independent’ provocations”. A foreign ministry spokesman said Japan was“Resolutely opposed” to any attempt to“Skirt” or“Make a breakthrough” on the Taiwan issue. On the island, Zhuo rongtai recently faced a“Black gold” investigation.
According to a report by Taiwan’s“United Daily News” on March 18, You Zhibin, deputy secretary-general of the new party, and others believe that Zhuo Rongtai was suspected of corruption when he flew to Japan on a special China Airlines flight from the Taiwan Air Force Songshan headquarters, a few days ago, he went to the Taipei District Attorney’s office to report him for profit-seeking and abuse of power in violation of the“Fortress zone law” and the“Criminal law”. The Taipei District Attorney’s Office has appointed prosecutors to investigate.
KMT“Legislator” Xu Qiaoxin further disclosed on the 17th that Zhuo Rongtai’s visit to Japan had been planned last year and was originally intended to go to the World Expo, but due to many considerations by the Japanese side, lIN chia-lung, Taiwan’s“Foreign Minister”, was the last person to do so; but the Executive Yuan did not give up, and in January this year Ruan Chao-hsiung, deputy secretary-general of the Executive Yuan, took charge of it himself. Xu Qiaoxin said, according to the original plan, “Executive Yuan” responsible for communication with the island’s media, security units responsible for planning the trip, “Sports Ministry” was assigned to arrange“Minister” Li Yang to accompany. Because when negotiating with the Japanese side, Taiwan promised that it would not and could not have any open political activities. Therefore, after Zhuo Rongtai fled on March 7, on the 9th, he changed his tune and hurriedly remitted money to China Airlines at his own expense, “Due to excessive propaganda, the promise to Japan was broken.”. Hsu Qiao-hsin said that Frank Hsieh, a former Taipei representative in Japan, was the first to use his personal connections to carry out a“Grand internal propaganda” and that Zhuo’s trip was“Mixed with internal DPP factional activities.”.
“This was a private trip at his own expense,” Zhuo said. A few days ago, he took out a receipt and claimed that all the related expenses were paid for by himself, including the charter flight cost of about 2.08 million nt dollars (the same below) , and the total cost of the tour bus, race tickets, etc. , about 2.14 million NT dollars.
As a result, the island’s Internet has exploded with questions about the cost of charter flights. Chang Chih-ho, a Taipei City Councillor from the People’s Party with 20 years’ experience as a pilot, estimated that the one-way fare should be about RMB 2.59 m and the round trip about RMB 5.19 m. In response to Zhuo’s claim that“The contract was signed on March 6, but the money was sent on March 9 because it was a holiday,” Zhang Zhihao said that the business model of private charter flights and even emergency medical jets is common, usually requires payment in advance. According to the Joint News Network reported that the island’s netizens found that zhuorongtai open receipt of the Japanese car rental company“Dacheng International Business” has shown a permanent closure.
A commentary published by Taiwan’s Ettoday.net said that according to the latest annual property declaration of Zhuo rong-tai published by Taiwan’s“Supervisory Bureau,” he has deposits of 9.21 million yuan in his name and debts of 3.56 million yuan, but according to rough estimates, a round-trip flight from Taiwan to Tokyo, along with the attendants and other hidden costs, would cost close to 10 million yuan. “Did Zhuo Rongtai lose everything just to watch a baseball game?”
Lin Guangting, a consultant to the cross-strait economic, trade and Cultural Exchange Association, wrote an article on the 17th that while the controversy over Zhuo Rongtai’s charter flight to Japan to watch soccer was still raging, lai qingde also threw out the“Kuomintang rule to treat the people of Taiwan than the Japanese colonial” fallacy, can be said to add fuel to the fire. He believes that these two events seem to be related to Japan, but the underlying intention is to intensify cross-strait conflicts, exposing the DPP authorities’ so-called“Taiwan-japan friendship” is only a clumsy tool for politicians on both sides to manipulate“Anti-china”. (Cheng Dong)