Following Solomon Islands , Kiribati also "severed diplomatic relations" with the Taiwan authorities on the 20th. According to Taiwan's "Dongsen News Cloud" report on the 20th, the Tsai Office confirmed this afternoon (20th) that Taiwan's "Foreign Minister" Wu Zhaoxie had resigned from the Tsai Office. However, Tsai Ing-wen still did not agree this time.
Screenshot of Taiwan's "Dongsen News Cloud" report
Report said that Tsai Office spokesman Ding Yungong confirmed that Wu Zhaoxie did "please take responsibility" from Tsai Ing-wen. Ding Yungong also "passed the blame" the mainland claimed that it was the mainland's "rude international behavior" that led to this (referring to "breaking diplomatic relations"), rather than the responsibility of the Taiwan authorities. So Tsai Ing-wen "consoled Minister Wu."
Wu Zhaoxie (Photo source: Taiwan's "Dongsen News Cloud")
Earlier today, Wu Zhaoxie was asked whether he was considering taking "political responsibility" and resigning. Wu Zhaoxie replied that he would assume the necessary "political responsibility", but the issue of staying or leaving "has to the superior to make the decision." At that time, some netizens on the island mocked him, did Wu Zhaoxie have to wait until all the "diplomatic diplomatic countries" have been "cut" before resigning? Taiwan should establish a "Ministry of Disconnection" to allow Wu Zhaoxie to show his strengths. ↓
In fact, Wu Zhaoxie's "please give up" has long been a familiar drama for netizens on the island. On September 16, the night when the Solomon Islands decided to "break diplomatic relations" with Taiwan, Wu Zhaoxie said that he had resigned from Tsai for this. Subsequently, Office Cai responded that all front-line colleagues in the foreign affairs department had done their best to the last moment, so there was no problem of resigning. At that time, a Taiwanese netizen had previewed that he would resign, leave, leave, leave... The next episode to be continued↓
Early, when the African country Burkina Faso "breaking diplomatic relations" with the Taiwan authorities on May 24, 2018, Wu Zhaoxie resigned verbally to Tsai Ing-wen. However, just one day later, Wu Zhaoxie changed his words. On May 25, 2018, he publicly stated that he would continue to serve as the head of Taiwan’s foreign affairs department and "continue to fight for Taiwan’s foreign affairs work."
3 months later (August 2018), Central American country El Salvador also announced a "severance of diplomatic relations" with the Taiwan authorities. The Kuomintang "legislator" Fei Hongtai sarcastically said at the time that Wu Zhaoxie was already the "ministerial minister for breaking off diplomatic relations." This time, Wu Zhaoxie, the "Minister of Disconnection", changed his past operations and did not mention resignation, but said he would discuss with the "supervisor". In response, Taiwan’s senior media person, Huang Chuangxia, sarcastically said, “Wu Zhaoxie rewrites the political norms of responsibility for government officials.”
Regarding the incident of Kiribati's "breaking diplomatic relations" with the Taiwan authorities, the Kuomintang said today that Wu Zhaoxie also vowed in the "Legislative Yuan" in early May this year that there will be no "diplomatic diplomatic countries" to "break diplomatic relations" with Taiwan this year. Less than a few months later, the "break of diplomatic relations" between the two "diplomatic countries" immediately slapped Wu Zhaoxie in the face. The Kuomintang believes that if Taiwan's "Ministry of Foreign Affairs" is not inadequate in terms of intelligence and resources, it is to deliberately conceal the foreign affairs crisis and only report good news but not bad news. The Kuomintang requires Tsai Ing-wen to immediately remove Wu Zhaoxie and other relevant officials who are not suitable for office.
KMT also criticized that in the face of the increasing number of "divorce-breaking countries", the DPP, as the ruling party, should face up to the real reasons behind the "divorce-breaking countries" and propose practical response methods, rather than continue to push the responsibility to the "divorce-breaking countries", opposition parties on the mainland or the island.