Taipei Times
Date: Nov 12, 2016
By: Alison Hsiao / Staff reporter
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government is trying to spin the fact that it had placed its bet
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Culture and Communications Committee deputy director-general Hung Meng-kai speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA
on the wrong US presidential candidate, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) said yesterday, referring to a statement by President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration that Tsai had met with a key consultant of US president-elect Donald Trump.
Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lee (李大維) on Thursday said that Tsai had met a key consultant from Trump’s team last month, with Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang (黃重諺) later saying that it was Edwin Feulner, founder of the Washington-based Heritage Foundation think tank, and that the two met on Oct. 13.
KMT Culture and Communications Committee deputy director Hung Meng-kai (洪孟楷) said that as the representative of the Heritage Foundation, Feulner “comes to Asia for a fundraising tour every year.”
“What does it have to do with Trump’s campaign team? Feulner has been to Taiwan more than 20 times,” Hung said. [FULL STORY]