EMPTY JOB?The former vice president said that he would not have been asked to help in the negotiations, as that office does not have a clearly defined function
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 23, 2017
By: Shih Hsiao-kuang and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) yesterday rejected
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Den-yih talks to reporters in Taipei yesterday after the inauguration of King En-ching as the new director of the KMT’s Huang Fu-hsing military veterans chapter. Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times
allegations that he was involved in negotiations with then-Executive Yuan secretary-general Chien Tai-lang (簡太郎) over a navy minesweeper project during his tenure as vice president and accused President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) of having a close connection with a scandal-hit shipbuilder.
Local media reported that Chien, who led Cabinet negotiations for a syndicated loan to Ching Fu Shipbuilding Co (慶富造船) in 2015, met with Wu twice at the Presidential Office Building.
Wu said that while there were ample opportunities to meet with Chien, who was unlikely to speak with him about the minesweeper project, because the vice president has no clearly defined state function.
Wu displayed a picture of Tsai talking with Ching Fu president and founder Chen Ching-nan (陳慶男) at Coast Guard Administration drills in Keelung earlier this year, saying: “This picture says everything.” [FULL STORY]
