(Text/Observer Network Zhu Xinwei) Today, the African country Burkina Faso suddenly announced that it had "severed diplomatic relations" with Taiwan, which caught the Tsai Ing-wen authorities off guard.
Interestingly, Burkina Faso exposed a "big news" last year, which excited the "Taiwan independence" elements at that time.
Anti-China media hyped
In January 2017, in an interview with the media, the Foreign Minister of Burkina Faso said that he would reject the "monetary trend" with the Taiwan authorities of up to $50 billion in the mainland. "We received very rude proposals. They said that if you establish diplomatic relations with Beijing, we will provide you $50 billion, or even more", but Burkina Faso "will not betray Taiwan for money."
(Popular science: Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in Africa, with GDP of US$12.1 billion in 2016. US$50 billion is equivalent to the country's GDP for four consecutive years.)
This extremely absurd statement, but the "Taiwan independence" elements believe it.
"legislator" Wang Dingyu, a Democratic Progressive Party, posted on Facebook at the time that "some values and friends cannot be bought with money." When Chen Shui-bian was in office, he engaged in "warning diplomacy" and wooed "diplomatic diplomacy" and was criticized by the outside world as "Kaizi diplomacy" (fool diplomacy). Wang Dingyu also "learned and used it" this time, saying that this is the "money and Kaizi diplomacy." Another Democratic Progressive Party "legislator" Luo Zhizheng also expressed confidence: This shows that Taiwan's "diplomatic diplomatic relations" are worry-free.
At that time, our Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying directly criticized the rumor of $50 billion, "I think this is simply an fantasy ".
What’s ridiculous is that on May 24, 2018, a Taiwanese reporter asked again whether the above rumors were true. Wu Zhaoxie, the head of Taiwan’s foreign affairs department, still acknowledged that this was a “real” news. He said: “This is a public information… It can be understood from this public information that mainland China… has put in a lot of effort, this is a public information…”
Wu Zhaoxie verbally resigned to Tsai Ing-wen today
Whether he is sincere or false, the DPP authorities have still used this entertainment news as a shield. It is really sad.
