In recent times, cross-strait relations have continued to be tense. The US media recently revealed that the Biden administration is about to sell arms to Taiwan again, which has attracted attention from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. According to China News Agency on September 2, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced at 5 pm on the 2nd that it had notified the U.S. Congress that the U.S. State Department decided to approve the possible sale of "Saturday" missiles, "Harpoon" missiles and logistics support services for surveillance radar plans to Taiwan, among which the "Saturday" missile will be mounted on the F-16 fighter jets sold to Taiwan by the United States. Total value of US$1.106 billion. This is also the sixth time that the Biden administration has been in power for more than 7 months, and the fifth time since 2022. The last arms sales were the $108 million tank and tank parts announced on July 15. This arms sales were also interpreted by the US media as a "hard power" response made by the US to China's strong response after Pelosi's 's spy on the Taiwan Strait.
But from the time when the US Department of Defense announced the news, it was September 2, that is, yesterday at 5 pm. If the Biden administration wants to show its support to Taiwan and put pressure on mainland China, why choose such a time when everyone is about to get off work? In fact, the United States still wants to downplay the political impact of this arms sales. In other words, the pressure on the mainland and support of Taiwan is fake, and selling goods is real. It is reported that the main contractors in the United States that undertake these arms sales include Arizona Thor missiles and defense companies, Boeing companies in Missouri , and thunder tech companies in Massachusetts. They are all military-industrial enterprises that are closely related to the United States official . They are the ones who benefit.
Since this year, the Biden administration has significantly accelerated the speed of arms sales to Taiwan in the name of enhancing the "asymmetric combat power" of the Taiwan military. Since it is an arms sales, if the United States wants to sell it, Taiwan has to buy it. But Taiwan is just a small place, where can we get so much money to buy arms? Therefore, in the 2023 total budget passed by the Taiwan Party and Army at the end of last month, it significantly increased the military expenditure budget in Taiwan. The military expenditure budget has reached NT$1, NT$258.63 billion, an increase of 71.6 billion from 2022, a growth of 13.9%, setting a record high. It aroused strong dissatisfaction among the people on the island. According to Taiwanese media reports, on September 1, the Kuomintang representatives held a press conference to criticize the Tsai Ing-wen administration of the DPP "will spend money the most." Zeng Mingzong, the general convener of the Kuomintang caucus in China, said that in order to circumvent relevant provisions of the "Budget Law", the Tsai Ing-wen authorities have compiled a large number of special budgets every year starting from 2017, most of which are used to purchase arms. For example, the budget for the "New Fighter Procurement" in 2019 was 247.2 billion yuan, and the "Sea and Air Combat Power Improvement Plan" in 2022 was 237 billion yuan. According to rough calculations, when Tsai Ing-wen's term ended, Taiwan's total debt would exceed NT$8 trillion, and each Taiwanese citizen (including a newborn baby) was burdened with 266,000 yuan in debt, and the financial situation in Taiwan was quickly corrupted. According to reports, Taiwan currently has only 439.4 billion yuan in debt quota, which is close to the upper limit of debt. In the event of a major disaster or emergency defense in Taiwan, there is no money to rescue the disaster.
Korean Party "legislator" Li Dewei also pointed out that no one has ever spent money as Tsai Ing-wen in his tenure as the leaders of Taiwan. For example, Lee Teng-hui's debts during his tenure were 1.37 trillion yuan, Chen Shui-bian's 3.8 trillion yuan, and Ma Ying-jeou's 5.2 trillion yuan. Tsai Ing-wen has only been in power for six years, and Taiwan has owed 6.6 trillion yuan. There are still two years of term in office. People can't help but ask, where have you spent money?
, we don’t know where it has been spent, and we dare not say anything, but she has not spent it on the spot, and everyone can understand it. Just like the China Times Electronic News reported on September 1, it said that the Tsai authorities originally approved the construction of a 4,500-ton missile patrol ship in the Taiwan Navy with a budget of 24.5 billion yuan. However, according to the 2023 defense budget submitted by the Navy, this 4,500-ton "new-generation missile patrol ship" will no longer be built, and it will be replaced by two new 2,000-ton "new-generation light patrol ships", but the budget remains unchanged, and it is still 24.5 billion yuan.A "Cat Freight Prince" came, and Tsai Ing-wen agreed immediately. A retired general from Taiwan said that "new generation of missile patrol ships" and "new generation of light patrol ships" are completely different things. Change the budget name two words, and completely transfer and apply it for 24.5 billion yuan. I have never seen such an operation before.
Although Tsai Ing-wen is very good at spending money, she doesn’t make much money. Due to the continued tense cross-strait relations, it has greatly affected the economy of Taiwan. China News Service reported on September 1 that according to the economic authorities of the Taiwan authorities, all foreign sales orders have declined. Many manufacturing companies can only force employees to take unpaid leave because they have no orders to produce. But this unpaid leave is OK for three or five days, and ten or eight days, but if it continues for a long time, isn’t it the same as being unemployed at home?
Nowadays, although the Tsai administration has been embellishing peace, such as "milestones in the US-Taiwan relations", etc., in fact, internal opposition voices are getting higher and higher. In addition to being criticized for the military budget, at the critical moment of Taiwan’s nine-in-one, the DPP once again broke out a plagiarism scandal. According to Taiwan’s China Times News Network on September 1, after Lin Zhijian’s thesis, the DPP’s Keelung mayor candidate Tsai Shiying was also exposed to have a doctoral thesis published when she was studying at the Taipei University’s “Urban Planning Institute” for plagiarism. Moreover, the copy was very stupid. Liu Shijie, a candidate for the Taipei City public opinion representative, said at a press conference on the 1st that Cai Shiying's paper was copied even by Baidu Encyclopedia and Wikipedia , and it was plagiarized word by word. For example, the total number of words on the second page of his paper was 903 words, and 493 words were plagiarized by Baidu Encyclopedia, with a plagiarism ratio of 55%; the total number of words on the 60 page was 527 words, with a plagiarism of Wikipedia being 468 words, with a plagiarism ratio of 89%. The islanders also had no choice but to say, "Everyone knows whether the DPP has real talent and knowledge. The DPP will only be lawless, which is a pity." It is indeed a bit difficult for such a lack of standards to focus on improving cross-strait relations, and returning to "1992 Consensus " and recognizing a China. The great cause of national reunification still depends on the mainland to complete.
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