The US media recently disclosed that German CDU Congressman Mark Hauptmann was accused of taking bribes from Azerbaijan and other places for advertising in his own local newspapers and is currently under investigation.
Unexpectedly, this bribery case accidentally exposed the inside story of Taiwan's foreign propaganda-Taiwan spent more than 800,000 yuan (New Taiwan dollars) to advertise in the tabloid published by the congressman.
In fact, what the Hoptman case exposed was only the tip of the iceberg of the DPP authorities' "outside propaganda" methods.
The DPP is good at converting "external propaganda" into "internal propaganda," bragging about it, deceiving the people on the island, adding points for its own governance, and canvassing votes for elections.
Seeing that the DPP authorities have "outside propaganda" needs and are willing to spend money to create gods, some international anti-China politicians, academic institutions, media, and scholars have been bought by the DPP heavily to speak out for Taiwan and talk to the DPP authorities. A "community of interests" has been formed.
The DPP authorities' routines on "outside propaganda" are also numerous.
Routine 1:
Bought off multinational anti-China lawmakers
The use of anti-China "parliamentarians' voices" is the main carrier and grasp of the DPP's "outside propaganda".
One of its characteristics is that Taiwan’s “foreign affairs department” seeks out certain influential anti-China congressmen in the country’s parliament, and then communicates with these congressmen through intermediaries (public relations companies, research institutions, individuals or local businessmen) Connect the head.
Through them in the Congress to "voice" for Taiwan, or promote Taiwan-related bills; then these congressmen pass the Congress, and then hype the Taiwan-related issue into a topic of international concern, thereby putting pressure on the international community and international organizations to "voice for Taiwan" ".
When these "voices" attracted the attention of international public opinion, the DPP immediately introduced this so-called "international public opinion" into the island, turning "outside propaganda" into "internal propaganda."
The second feature is that the "legislators" of Taiwan's "Legislative Yuan", the peripheral organizations of Taiwan's "National Security" system, or some commercial organizations use brokers, public relations companies, and Taiwanese businessmen to establish relations with foreign anti-China lawmakers.
Invite foreign congressmen to exchange visits with the "legislators" of Taiwan's "Legislative Yuan".
Then, the DPP authorities transferred these exchanges to specific media, naturally transforming "outside propaganda" into "internal propaganda," and the myth is that Taiwan and the DPP authorities have made a "big breakthrough in diplomacy."
The Democratic Progressive Party's buying of anti-China lawmakers is mainly concentrated in three sectors, one is Asia, the other is Europe, and the third is the United States.
In the Japanese parliament, the more active pro-Taiwan congressmen groups mainly include the "Liberal Democratic Party-Japan-Taiwan Friendship Congressmen Alliance", "21st Century Committee", and "Japan-Taiwan Friendship Conference."
These pro-Taiwan congressmen often use their influence in Japan to cheer for the DPP authorities and the "Taiwan independence" platform. They also often speak out for Taiwan on sensitive cross-strait issues and even pressure international organizations.
According to Taiwan’s “National Security Council”, in order to circumvent Japan’s strict political donation regulations, the DPP authorities will generally bypass supervision when bribing Japanese congressmen. The main methods are: first, to provide financial sponsorship to those who happen to be a Japanese congressman, and at the same time. Japanese companies that have trade relations with Taiwan provide benefits.
The second is to give Japanese companies large-scale construction or some major projects for Taiwanese companies that invest in Japan, so that they can develop "pro-Taiwan factions" in Japan's political and business circles.
The third is to provide political donations to Japanese congressmen in disguised form or to provide subsidies in the nature of rewards.
The donations and subsidies paid by the DPP authorities are not direct.
For example, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan buys a large number of meal coupons for a fundraising dinner organized by members of Congress; Taiwanese companies operating in Japan provide political donations and "entertainment" to Taiwan, and Taiwan does not ask for receipts for these. Leave no evidence.
In Europe, the targets of bribery by the DPP authorities mainly include members of the European Parliament and members of the parliaments of its member countries.
The European Parliament has long played the role of Taiwan's "best friend" in Europe.
There are powerful Taiwan lobbying groups among European parliamentarians, including the so-called "EP-Taiwan Friendship Group" established in 1991.
The team members are located in Germany, France, Sweden, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania and many other EU countries.
In Denmark, there is also a pro-Taiwan civil society non-governmental organization-the Danish "Taiwan Corner".
Like other pro-Taiwan "actors", it has attracted the attention of the European media to Taiwan-related issues.
The U.S. Congress is the main target of the DPP. Tsai Ing-wen spends about half of his annual "confidential diplomacy" budget on buying U.S. congressmen. The large cost of bribing U.S. congressmen is mainly concentrated on arms purchases, because many pro-Taiwan congressmen in the United States are behind the funders. It is the American arms dealer.
In fact, the Democratic Progressive Party’s buying of US congressmen is basically open.
As early as mid-2005, the "Capitol Hill" newspaper in Washington, USA exposed a scandal: Taiwan hosted American congressmen to Taiwan for food and drink.
The parliamentarians who were hosted are all "pro-Taiwan" and support Taiwan's "self-determination and even independence". They have jointly signed a proposal to criticize the "Anti-Secession Law" passed by the Chinese mainland.
According to the above-mentioned sources of Taiwan’s National Security Council, dozens of members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, including US Congressman Cruz, who was recently sanctioned by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, have economic contacts with the DPP authorities.
These U.S. congressmen were "brainwashed" under Taiwan's "sugar-coated cannonballs", and eventually became spokespersons for Taiwan's interests in the United States, and "returned" Taiwan in various ways.
“If China is not unified, they will be profitable.” As one of the “white gloves” used by the DPP authorities to bribe U.S. anti-China congressmen, an “expert” from Taiwan’s Asia-Pacific Peace Foundation, a peripheral organization of Taiwan’s National Security Council, said frankly, this is Anti-China parliamentarians from various countries are unwilling to see the main reason for China's reunification, because only by maintaining this state of division, the DPP authorities will continue to "tribute" them, and they will get more benefits from it. Only the voices of these anti-China lawmakers can create the illusion of the DPP’s “diplomatic invincibility” for the people on the island of Taiwan. Such material will help Tsai Ing-wen to turn his “external propaganda” into “internal propaganda” and attract fans for himself. ."
Routine 2:
Buy over academic institutions and scholars such as overseas think tanks
Buying foreign think tanks and academic institutions to "voice" for Taiwan in the international community, or to push Taiwan's so-called "academic reports" is another common method used by the DPP authorities to engage in "outside propaganda."
In March last year, Taiwan’s new media "Sai News" an article titled "The Tsai Government’s Thousands of Thousands Per Year, and the Washington Think Tank’s "2049 Plan" Becomes the Largest Donor", suddenly detonated Tsai Ing-wen’s acquisition of American think tanks and ruling for him. A scandal that created momentum and affected the US government’s Taiwan policy.
Three months later, on June 17, the "American Prospect" website published an article titled "Taiwan Financial Aid Think Tanks: Ubiquitous but Little Known", exposing that the Taiwan authorities provided funds to five American think tanks. Prompted it to publish policy documents, urging the US government to establish a "closer relationship" with the Taiwan authorities.
The article further pointed out that “Washington researchers earn five or six figures (US dollars) in income from the Taiwan authorities each year, but when writing the US-Taiwan policy, they conceal this interest relationship.”
Eli Clifton, the author of the article "America Lookout", is the research director of the Democratic Foreign Policy Project of the Quincy Institute for Statecraft, an American think tank, and an investigative journalist, dedicated to researching politics and American foreign policy. Funds in.
The Eli Clifton survey pointed out that the five most well-known think tanks in Washington, the Brookings Institution, the Center for American Progress, the Center for New American Security, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Hudson Institute, have been publishing policy documents. Urge the United States to establish closer relations with the Taiwan authorities.
These seemingly impartial research institutions are pushing the United States to expand arms sales to Taiwan. However, the funds they received from the "Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States" have been "hidden" in their annual reports or websites and have not been widely used. Disclosure.
In addition to the above five think tanks, the "2049 Plan" think tank has received long-term assistance from the Democratic Progressive Party and the Tsai Ing-wen Elementary Education Foundation. The amount is part of their "confidential", but it is certain that only the think tank is disclosed. It can be seen from the data that Taiwan’s financial support is much higher than that of the United States.
Since it's a deal, then you pay for my work.
After receiving the money, the Brookings Institution of the United States twice published an article in the Taipei Times, urging the United States to support the maintenance of "US-Taiwan relations" and promote the "US-Taiwan trade agreement"; the Center for American Progress published a report in September 2019 , To provide direct advice to U.S. policy makers on "how to firmly support Taiwan"; when the New American Security Center provides relevant reports to Washington, it urges U.S. policy makers to give priority to bilateral investment and trade agreements with Taiwan; Center for Strategy and International Studies May 2020 The former US Consul General in Hong Kong and Macau, Tang Weikang, published an article saying that the US and Taiwan’s trade agreement would strengthen US leadership; the Hudson Institute proposed that the US sell “cluster bombs or incendiary weapons” to Taiwan, and wrote an article in May 2020 to urge the United States to sell “cluster bombs or incendiary weapons” to Taiwan. The United States recognizes "an autonomous or independent Taiwan"; the "2049 Institute" advocates that the United States should station troops in Taiwan.
Routine 3:
Bribe government officials
It has become Tsai Ing-wen's strategy of "outward propaganda" to buy off incumbent and former government officials and lobby his country's Taiwan policy.
At the end of 2016, President-elect Trump and Tsai Ing-wen made a phone call.
This call was described by the US media as "the biggest mistake in the 40 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States."
However, this American "mistake" was blown by Tsai Ing-wen as a "major diplomatic breakthrough."
Just three days after the call, the "New York Times" revealed the dirty deal behind it-Tsai Ing-wen promoted the call through a 93-year-old Republican leader and former senator named Bob Dole.
The condition is that the DPP authorities pay $140,000.
Like the buying of anti-China parliamentarians from many countries, the DPP's buying up of anti-China politicians all over the world has also been in full swing since the Chen Shui-bian period.
On March 18, 2014, according to Reuters reporter Jane Rosenberg, Taiwan’s so-called “diplomatic country” Guatemala’s former president and politician admitted that he had accepted a bribe of 2.5 million U.S. dollars from the DPP authorities in 2000.
According to a source from Taiwan’s National Security Council, Taiwan’s purchases of US politicians range from a variety of methods, ranging from inviting politicians to dinner, inviting politicians with their families, or traveling in groups to visit Taiwan, to as large as military purchases as a means of conveying benefits.
Compared with other countries, Japan ranks behind the United States with the second most foreign politicians bought by the DPP authorities.
The DPP and the right-wing forces in Japan mingled together. It began when the DPP had not yet established the party, when Japan was the stronghold of "Taiwan independence".
In Japan, most of the Liberal Democratic Party leaders and many former prime ministers are targeted by the Democratic Progressive Party.
Such as former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, Naoto Kan, etc., and the current Minister of Defense Nobuo Kishi, is the guest of Tsai Ing-wen.
Routine Four:
Buying overseas media to advertise to increase the so-called "international visibility"
"Seeing Taiwan" is an important criterion of the DPP's "outside propaganda."
In recent years, the DPP has taken this as its goal to spread money in multinational media to buy advertisements, and bribing German MP Hoptmann is just a microcosm of the DPP buying advertisements to engage in "outside propaganda."
In 2015, Tsai Ing-wen visited the United States.
Before departure, Tsai Ing-wen discussed with Wu Zhaoxie and communicated well in advance with the US "Wall Street Journal" stationed in Taiwan. The DPP paid for the publication of Tsai Ing-wen's personally signed article "Taiwan-US Relations to a New Level" in the newspaper. , The newspaper publication time is set as the day Tsai Ing-wen arrived in the United States.
However, what Tsai Ing-wen and Wu Zhaoxie could not think of was that the Wall Street Journal did not speak credit, and the newspaper hit Tsai Ing-wen at critical moments.
This makes Wu Zhaoxie and Tsai Ing-wen like ants on a hot pot.
The delay of the Wall Street Journal allowed Tsai Ing-wen, who is well versed in "money can make ghosts," offer to increase the price of the paper.
After the price increase, the Wall Street Journal published this article by Tsai Ing-wen.
Tsai Ing-wen later boasted that he was flexible in thinking about this matter and that it was done beautifully.
Just three days after Tsai Ing-wen returned to Taiwan from the United States, on June 12, 2015, the Asian edition of Time Magazine published a special report with Tsai Ing-wen as the cover.
This allowed Tsai Ing-wen, who went to the United States to succeed and the election momentum to rise at the time, once again attracted countless fans.
Tsai Ing-wen once said frankly that in her reports for many years, she was most interested in this report with her as the cover.
However, this Time Magazine "report" that satisfies Tsai Ing-wen is actually an out-and-out advertisement produced by the DPP at a huge expense. It uses the method of exporting to domestic sales to fool Taiwanese voters.
For this "report", Tsai Ing-wen's cronies and "brave"-DPP Deputy Secretary-General Liu Jianxin personally and "Time Magazine" Asia Editor-in-Chief Tan Chonghan, text reporter Luo Hola, and photographer Ferguson After communicating with the agreement reached for several months, Tsai Ing-wen has a requirement, that is, what kind of cover photo can be used to achieve "eye-catching".
The international community generally pursues the one-China policy, and many major media in the world generally do not touch the Taiwan issue. Therefore, Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP authorities had no choice but to switch to small media in some countries.
Some time ago, the Taiwanese office in Thailand actually combined Tsai Ing-wen with Taiwan’s anti-epidemic in a local tabloid that often published lace news, calling him an "outstanding Asian woman."
After being amplified and hyped by the green camp media on the island, this "report" that was ridiculed by others has indeed become an "outside propaganda" by the DPP to anaesthetize the people.
Can't buy real friends with money
The DPP came to power in just a few years and spent a lot of money. Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP benefited as a direct result of the "outside propaganda", but the people in Taiwan were unlucky.
However, the DPP authorities are increasingly buying all kinds of anti-China forces, but the voice of the world's adherence to one China is getting stronger and stronger.
In just a few years, Taiwan’s few so-called "countries with diplomatic relations" have lost seven in a row. Its "representative offices" in many parts of the world have been asked to change its names, and its "diplomatic" and consular license plates have been withdrawn...
From "financial aid diplomacy" to spending money to buy various international anti-China forces, the DPP authorities have spent huge sums of money in bribery to make the people on the island "innocent". The result is that the DPP has won votes for itself. Endorsed "Taiwan Independence".
However, practice has repeatedly proved that money cannot buy true friends, and "Taiwan independence" is also unpopular in the international community. No amount of money the DPP spends can change the destiny of being exploited.
Reporter: Gao Yang