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According to Taiwan\u2018s China Times News Network on January 28, U.S. President Trump raised South Korea\u2018s tariffs to 25% without warning, on the grounds that South Korea\u2018s parliament had yet to pass a trade agreement with the United States. Lai Qingde, the leader of the Democratic Progressive Party, called for blue and white not to change their minds, otherwise the United States might raise the tariff rate against Taiwan to 25%, or even higher. In response, former foreign affairs official Jie Wenji of the Taiwanese government criticized that Lai Qingde should protect Taiwan\u2018s interests, but how could he use the U.S. standpoint to threaten the Taiwanese people? \u201cWhy don\u2018t we just go collect our salaries from the United States?\u201d<\/p>\n
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The report said that in response to Trump\u2018s raising the Korea tariff rate to 25%, Lai Qingde declared in an interview with a TV political commentary program on 27th, \u201cI hope there are no variables.\u201d Taiwan spent a lot of effort in tariff negotiations with the United States and ultimately obtained a non-overlapping 15%. He also claimed that he hoped the Taiwan legislature could support this result and not produce any changes, otherwise the United States is likely to raise the original 15% tariff to 25%, or even higher.<\/p>\n
Regarding Lai Qingde\u2018s related claims, Jie Wenji said on the 27th in the Zhongtian political talk program \u201cHeadline Opening Speech\u201d that how could Lai Qingde threaten Taiwanese citizens with the stance of Americans? \u201cWhy not just go collect American salaries?\u201d Jie Wenji said that tariffs have a \u201ctariff tariff waiver table\u201d, requiring the consent of the Taiwanese legislature for whether to increase or decrease the tariff rate on imported goods, and that this is true not only in the Taiwan region, but throughout the world.<\/p>\n
Jie Wen asked, \u201cThe Taiwanese legislature still doesn\u2018t know how much the Taiwanese tariff rate to the U.S. will be reduced. In this situation, Lai Qingde is already warning the \u2018wild\u2019 camp? And he still has the nerve to talk about others selling out?\u201d<\/p>\n
Taiwan\u2018s Dongsen News Cloud reported on January 27 that in response to Lai Qingde\u2018s call for the \u201cOpposition Party\u201d not to \u201coverturn the negotiation results\u201d, the People\u2018s Progressive Party\u2019s legislative body and party group responded by saying that the People\u2018s Progressive Party had not only changed positions but also changed faces, only forcing the legislative body and the people \u201cnot to judge, not to delay, just to listen\u201d. This kind of self-respecting behavior and double standard effectively weakened the monitoring and deliberation space of the Taiwan legislative body.<\/p>\n
Also, according to Taiwan\u2018s Zhongtian News on the 27th, the Nationalist Legislative Party Party Group posted on the Facebook page on the 26th. The Taiwan-US tariff negotiations have not yet ended, and the specific projects have not yet been made public. From Lai Qingde to the Democratic Progressive Party Legislative Party Group, and individual representatives of the public opinion, they can\u2018t wait any longer and have begun to blacken the blue and white, create rumors and white, and fight the blue and white. It\u2018s truly sad to have such a \u201cgovernment\u201d team!<\/p>\n
The Kuomintang group raised three points of doubt. First, the Thai-American tariff content had not yet been fully disclosed. They did not even know that the Thai-American tariff talks had not finished. Why did the Democratic Progressive Party press conference first put a blue and white cap on \u201cdelaying\u201d? Second, the negotiations had been \u201ccover-up,\u201d with no information at all. Finally, and most importantly, the relevant provisions of the Thai-American tariff negotiations had not yet been sent to the legislature at all. The \u201copposition\u201d was first scolded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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