Recently, the Chinese Embassy in Lithuania announced that it would suspend business due to "technical reasons", which triggered speculation from all parties. Yesterday, news came from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs that China has decided to rename the diplomatic agency in Lithuania to the Agency of the People's Republic of China in Lithuania, and has asked the Cube to change its title. Taiwan's Far East Group was fined and the financial owner was fined. Su Zhenchang was anxious and said, "(Mainland) used to say that he welcomed Taiwanese businessmen, but now he will turn against him if he says he will turn against him." At the same time, the island is causing a public opinion storm due to the use of the Taiwan military's budget. On November 27, three things on the island are worth paying attention to.
The first thing is that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially announced the name change of Chinese diplomatic institutions in Lithuania. Last Friday, after Lithuania allowed the Taiwan authorities to set up the so-called "Taiwan Representative Office in Lithuania", the Chinese Foreign Ministry then announced that it would downgrade the diplomatic relations between the two countries to the agency level, that is, the lowest level of diplomatic relations. On the 25th, the Chinese Embassy in the United States announced that it would suspend business due to "technical reasons". Judging from the response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday, the so-called "technical reason" is that the name change procedure is being carried out. After all, the diplomatic relations between the two countries have been downgraded to the agency level, and the name will naturally be downgraded from the embassy to the agency office.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that on November 26, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs formally submitted a note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, and decided to rename the Chinese diplomatic agency in Lithuania to the Agency of the People's Republic of China in Lithuania, and asked the Cube to change the title of the diplomatic agency in China accordingly.
Lithuania allows the Taiwan authorities to set up the so-called "Taiwan Office in Lithuania", which is completely provoking China's bottom line and openly creating "one China and one Taiwan" internationally, with an extremely bad impact. Behind this matter is the United States instructing Lithuania to provoke and the Chinese Embassy in Lithuania to suspend its business. The Lithuanian Foreign Minister is seeking credit from the United States for "bone". The foreign minister claimed in Washington that Lithuania's decision was "independent" and that it was ridiculous to "show the world the way to resist China."
The second thing is that the financial backer behind the scenes was punished in the mainland, and the "Taiwan independence" stubborn Su Zhenchang could no longer hold back. days ago, Taiwan Far East Group was investigated and dealt with by law enforcement departments of five provinces and cities including Shanghai and Jiangsu in accordance with the law for a series of illegal and irregular issues. Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council spokesperson Zhu Fenglian confirmed at a press conference that the fine of was as high as 474 million yuan, and the idle construction land of a company has been recovered, and the investigation and punishment work is still in progress.
Examine this Taiwanese company, which has strong financial resources, is particularly willing to "spent money" in Taiwan's local elections, and is especially keen on "betting" on both sides. It depends on whoever has greater power and supports whoever supports it. In 2020, the Far East Group's political donation reached 58 million New Taiwan dollars , ranking first among all funders, almost the sum of the political donations ranked second to seventh.
After the DPP gained power, Far East Group took over the DPP's thigh, and a large amount of political donations from its subsidiaries flowed to DPP politicians. In the 2018 Taiwan elections, the Far East Group provided a political donation of NT$2 million to the "Taiwan independence" die-hard Su Zhenchang. In addition, the Far East Group has also provided political donations to Su Zhenchang's daughter, confidants and others for their elections.
The history of Taiwan Far East Group supporting "Taiwan independence" elements cannot be emptied. The election political donation project announced by relevant departments in Taiwan in July 2020 showed that in the election that year, the Far East Group supported 45 blue and green candidates and 31 green camp DPP candidates.
Seeing that his financial owner was punished, Su Zhenchang couldn't sit still, claiming that mainland "had always said that he would welcome Taiwanese businessmen in the past, but now he would turn against him if he said he would turn against him." . Tsai Ing-wen also personally came to the scene, clamoring the mainland to "stop such behavior immediately and not continue to harm cross-strait economic and trade and cross-strait relations."When the "Taiwan independence" elements on the island advocate "Alliance between the United States and China", they do not mention who was destroying cross-strait relations. Now when they feel personal pain, they bite and say that the mainland "harm" cross-strait relations. It is really ridiculous!
State Office spokesperson has made the logic of this matter clear before. The mainland's position to strengthen cross-strait economic exchanges and cooperation and deepen cross-strait integration and development has never changed, and its actions have never stopped... However, will never allow related enterprises and funders of "Taiwan independence" stubborn elements to seek profit in the mainland, and will never allow Taiwanese enterprises to make money in the mainland while supporting "Taiwan independence" on the island, undermining cross-strait relations, and doing "fighting the pot". Taiwanese companies like Taiwan Far East Group are undoubtedly the kind of Taiwanese companies that are doing "smashing the pot" as the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said! The third thing about
is that the actual cost of compiling a budget of 60 million is nearly 600 million, and the use of the Taiwan military's budget has caused controversy. According to Taiwanese media reports, the original budget for military investment this year was NT$62.59 million, but in the first half of the year alone, this expenditure was as high as NT$590 million, a surge of nearly 10 times from the budget.
According to Taiwan's legislative body, in order to accelerate the implementation of the harpoon procurement case with the United States, the DPP authorities not only exceeded the budget, but also laid off other military purchase cases. Some military purchase cases were only executed for NT$100,000, and the Taiwan Navy even borrowed money from the Army to raise the first payment. Public opinion on the island accused the DPP of joining forces with the United States to hollow out Taiwan.
It is worth noting that the DPP has not stopped its pace of military purchases in such excessive implementation. Earlier this week, the Taiwan legislature passed a military purchase budget of NT$240 billion, most of which were to purchase self-developed equipment from Taiwan’s “Chinese Academy of Sciences”. Public opinion on the island generally believes that this huge military sale case will trigger a “corruption case” and someone will make money from it.
Judging from the current situation, the Lithuanian incident may not be over yet, and the United States intends to use this to expand the impact of this matter. Recently, Polish is also ready to move, intending to imitate Lithuania to provoke China, and even want to provoke China-Russia relations , with a clown-like face.
