Late at night on February 6, a strong shallow earthquake occurred offshore Hualien, causing four buildings to topple. As of the 11th, the earthquake had killed 17 people, 9 of whom were mainland tourists. Hualien County Magistrate Fu Kunqi announced on the 11th that the last two trapped mainland tourists were pinned down by beams and could not move out. They were confirmed to have died. The search and rescue will be stopped with the consent of their families, and large heavy machinery will be stationed for excavation. When the last batch of search and rescue personnel withdrew from Yunmen Cuidi, they bowed in condolences to the building amidst the sound of sirens, and the atmosphere at the scene was solemn.
After the most arduous relief work has come to an end, Hualien will have to endure a longer and more painful process of rebuilding its homes. An Fengshan, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said on the 12th that relevant mainland parties, local governments and Taiwan-funded enterprises have actively donated money and materials to support compatriots in the disaster areas to overcome difficulties and rebuild their homes as soon as possible. According to incomplete statistics, a total of 20.875 million yuan has been donated.
However, at this moment, Hualien County Magistrate Fu Kunqi questioned why the Taiwan authorities only gave Hualien 300 million (New Taiwan Dollars, the same below) when it was also an earthquake, while Tainan received 20 billion? There was a moment of public outcry.
Two years ago, in the early morning of this day, a major earthquake occurred in Tainan. At that time, Lai Qingde was still the mayor of Tainan, but he had already been named "Lai Shen". However, the Tainan earthquake made Lai Qingde even more "spirited". At that time, the media in Taiwan reported the news of Lai Qingde's disaster relief command at length. Some sharp-eyed media even saw that Lai Qingde was wearing a pair of open sneakers, and then made a big deal, saying that Lai Qingde had been running for disaster relief for days, and even his shoes were worn out. However, in the end, the "myth" was exposed. It is said that Lai Qingde wore rain boots for the first three days to provide disaster relief, and only changed to this pair of "smiling" sneakers on the fourth day. The meaning is self-evident.
But in any case, Lai Ching-te successfully gained a lot of political capital from the Tainan earthquake. A year and a half later, Lai Ching-te took over Taiwan's administrative agency with the light of "God" and became Tsai Ing-wen's number one opponent within the party.
There is a saying that "I have never eaten pork and I have seen pigs running away." This time there was a big earthquake in Hualien. Tsai Ing-wen changed her cold style of "hidden girl" and went to disaster relief in person. She went to Hualien several times to investigate the disaster. She even changed her past "young lady style" and not only chose to stay overnight in Hualien, but also got up early to have breakfast with the rescue officers and soldiers.
Therefore, Taiwan’s large and small media all focused on Tsai Ing-wen this time, not only blocking Lai Qingde in the emergency command center, but also the local parent official Fu Kunqi was reduced to a companion role.
What annoys this "five-star county magistrate" without party membership the most is that even if he is not given space, even the disaster relief funds in Tainan back then were 70 times that of Hualien!
html On the morning of 011, Fu Kunqi held a press conference and said that during the Tainan earthquake, Zhang Shanzheng, the head of the front office, allocated 20 billion yuan for disaster relief and reconstruction, plus 4.3 billion yuan of private donations; and Hualien’s private charity this time The total amount of funding is 595 million yuan, and the authorities have initially allocated only 300 million yuan to the Hualien County Government. Subsequent orders from Taiwan’s administrative agencies have to be awaited.Faced with Fu Kunqi’s complaints, Lai Ching-te said that the 20 billion yuan resettlement garden plan allocated by the Taiwanese authorities had not been implemented. In the past, most of Tainan’s reconstruction relied on social donations. The Taiwanese authorities “will not be exclusive to Tainan” and are concerned about Hualien. Only more, not less.
Subsequently, Chen Meiling, the convener and "political commissar" of the Taiwanese authorities' "Hualien Earthquake Relief and Reconstruction Task Force" who was born in Hualien, also claimed that nearly 1 billion yuan had been allocated for the Hualien County Government to use.
In response to Tsai's administration's response, Fu Kunqi held another press conference on the afternoon of the 11th and said that 600 million of the 1 billion is a special overall allocation of taxes. The overall allocation of funds is available across Taiwan. It is not a special fund for the disaster area. It is currently a subsidy received directly after the disaster. , nearly 400 million yuan. He reiterated his hope for support from the authorities.
Actually, don’t blame Fu Kunqi for being paranoid. After all, there is a serious confrontation between blue and green on the island. Even for disaster relief, there is still a difference between blue and green.Hualien County belongs to the traditional Lanying iron ticket area on the island. Although the current county magistrate Fu Kunqi has no party membership, his wife Xu Zhenwei has been nominated by the Kuomintang to run for the next Hualien County Magistrate. Therefore, it is human nature for Fu Kunxuan to suspect that the Tsai administration favors one over the other because of the blue-green issue.
In fact, under the deliberate manipulation of the Tsai administration, the disaster relief in Hualien gradually turned sour.
Taiwan's "Central Daily News" online newspaper published an editorial on the 11th, saying that on the day after the Hualien earthquake, the press release from Tsai Ing-wen's office expressed gratitude to the United States and Japan, but "only omitted" mainland China, which also expressed concern. , until the outside world questioned, Tsai Ing-wen added her thanks on Facebook, "It is possible to accept assistance from the mainland but not accept it. Japan does not need rescue but it has to beat gongs and drums and publicize it. The purpose is of course not just for disaster relief, but for politics".
"China Times" said that if saving people comes first, the Mainland Affairs Council should not care about status, but should try its best to help Hualien obtain resources from the mainland. If the Taiwan authorities really have no political considerations, then the mainland rescue team with advanced technology and equipment and experience should be the first choice, or at least be listed as a priority along with Japan. Why did they end up preferring one to the other, so much so that it was described by the mainland media as a "strait aftershock" ?
"Disaster Politics" is originally a discipline that the international community is good at manipulating to break the ice. However, under the manipulation of the Tsai Administration, from Hualien County to bombarding the authorities for "favoring one and favoring others" to the DPP's "welcoming the sun and rejecting the mainland", every day Everything is filled with strong political intentions, which is chilling!
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