( Observer Network ) Recently, the truth about the so-called "Taiwan-US friendship" that the Taiwan authorities have long advocated has been exposed: It turns out that the so-called stable relationship depends on the "feeding" of the Taiwan authorities again and again...
Yesterday (18th), Taiwan United News Network exposed an old case again. In 2020, Taoyuan International Airport Company applied to the United States to join its overseas pre-clearance plan. The Taiwan authorities entrusted the US political PR Ye Wanghui to lobby the US side, who made two calls to the US side. The "Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Taipei, the United States" (Taiwanese authorities tampered with it as the "Taiwan Representative Office", hereinafter referred to as the "Representative Office") paid US$105,000 (approximately RMB 710,000, New Taiwan Dollar 3.01 million); the Taiwan authorities also found another public relations company through Ye Wanghui and spent another $30,000 (approximately RMB 200,000)... As a result, the US side rejected Taiwan's application, and millions of New Taiwan Dollars were wasted.
According to Taiwan media reports, the "Overseas Pre-custom-clearance" plan implemented by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security refers to completing the customs clearance procedures required for the entry destination at the time of departure in advance. Since 2018, the Taiwan authorities have been proclaiming high-profile that they want to join the US plan, which is also one of the so-called "diplomatic and domestic propaganda" projects of the Taiwan authorities.
Ye Wanghui served as deputy national security consultant for former US Vice President Cheney , and later became an aide to the Trump team. He often jumped around the Taiwan issue and has had contacts with Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Ching-te in recent years. He is also the president of a Washington International Consulting Company and has gone to Taiwan as an operator of a personal public relations consulting company.
In January 2020, on the eve of the Taiwan leadership election, Ye Wanghui also came to Taiwan. Therefore, when the Taiwan authorities tried to promote Taoyuan Airport to join the pre-custom clearance plan outside the United States, Ye Wanghui successfully received the case as a political public relations officer.
Ye Wanghui
Taiwan authorities entrusted Ye Wanghui to lobby the US side. Ye Wanghui made two calls to the US Senate and the State Department. Then, the "representative office" paid US$105,000 (approximately RMB 710,000, NT$3.01 million). The DPP found a Washington public relations company through Ye Wanghui's company and asked him to help write an email and call U.S. Congressmen. Taiwan paid another $30,000 (approximately RMB 200,000, New Taiwan Dollar 890,000). However, the application was rejected by the US side, which also means that the Taiwan authorities spent millions and ended up accomplishing nothing.
Tan Zhaobi, general manager of Taoyuan Airport Company, said that this matter is sensitive and he is not convenient for comment. The company did entrust US political PR, but did not pay the money. The airport company only cooperated with the policy.
The application files of the US Department of Justice are consistent with Dan Zhaobi's statement. Taiwan entrusts Ye Wanghui to lobby the US side. Taoyuan Airport is only a name. In 2020, Wu Zhixian, the then first-class secretary of the "Representative Office" of the DPP, came to Ye Wanghui, but Zhaobi signed the contract on October 29 of that year. Ye Wanghui's public relations company signed on November 3. The two companies did not sign the contract on the same occasion, and Ye Wanghui's declaration to collect Taiwan's money was the "Representative Office"; after Wu Zhixian facilitated Taoyuan Airport to sign a contract with Ye Wanghui, he lobbled with the Global Navigator Company. This work was handed over by Ye Wanghui.
In the case of political PR lobbying in Taoyuan Airport in the U.S. Department of Justice archives, Ye Wanghui's company only reported two calls from December 10 and 16, 2020, one to the Senate and the other to the State Council. The Global Navigator Company also made a public declaration, and from January to April 2021, it wrote a total of 26 emails and made three phone calls to members of Congress, and received $30,000.
In addition, relevant documents show that Ye Wanghui received US$15,000 from the Taiwan authorities every month. After 7 months, a total of US$105,000. He was nominally serving Taoyuan Airport. The actual payment to Ye Wanghui was the "representative office".
After the so-called "Taiwan-US relations" were frustrated, the foreign affairs department in Taiwan did not dare to publicize the matter. It was not until March this year that he was asked that he had wasted millions of taxpayers' money and that no one was held accountable.
Recently, after the Taiwanese media exposed this incident, some netizens on the island mocked him, "The DPP has always been like this. Anyway, it is not spending its own money, and it is never ruthless";
"Besides, it is probably not a failure. Some people's pockets are fat!"
"It's just a nest of snakes and rats";
Just two days ago, this incident was exposed, this Thursday, many Taiwanese media just revealed that the Taiwanese authorities had repeatedly contacted the senior management of the US for several times, and spent huge amounts of money on it.
For example, after Trump was successfully elected as the president of the United States, Tsai Ing-wen called to celebrate. At that time, the Taiwan authorities paid political PR Bob Dole, which was arranged by the latter. Dole received a total of US$140,000 from the DPP authorities during Trump's presidential election. The so-called "representative to the United States" Xiao Meiqin attended the inauguration ceremony of Biden, which was also political PR lobbying. Political PR Gahart was once the leader of the U.S. House of Representatives and a senior politician of the Democratic Party. Since 2013, Gahart has "worked for Taiwan". For many years, the Taiwan authorities have paid him $22,000 a month.
Today (19th), United News Network released a comment pointing out that over the years, the Taiwan authorities have sent a large amount of US dollars into the pockets of US political and PR. To put it nicely, they are hiring them to run errands, but many people have nothing to do after taking the money. This situation is a kind of corrupt alternative money "diplomacy". The dense political and public relations offensive accumulated with huge amounts of money, and they also boast about how good the relationship between the two sides is. The relationship obtained by spending money is not sincere. It is really ridiculous to communicate and interact with the United States by money.
Previously, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that the DPP authorities boasted that the support from the US was purely self-deception, and the people of Taiwan suffered. While their hard-earned money was taken for tribute, they were tied to the chariot of "Taiwan independence" and headed into the abyss of danger.
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