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Back"Shen Rongqin's International Vision" Jiang Wanan needs to answer directly~
"Shen Rongqin's International Vision" Jiang Wanan needs to answer directly~
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自由时报59 minutes agoOpinion5 min readChinaView original

"Shen Rongqin's International Vision" Jiang Wanan needs to answer directly~

In response to the controversy between Jiang Wanan's campaign team and the city government spokesperson involving smear and rumors, Shen Rongqin called on Jiang Wanan to come forward and explain rather than continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

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Shen Rongqin accused Jiang Wanan’s campaign team and city government spokespersons Wei Wenxuan and Luo Zhiqiang of being involved in smear and spreading rumors, questioned Jiang Wanan’s negative campaign tactics as the election got closer, and asked him to respond positively to relevant controversies instead of continuing to remain silent.

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Why It Matters

Jiang Wanan and Shen Boyang are competitors in the Taipei mayoral election. Recent polls show that the gap between the two has narrowed, and then smear accusations against Shen Boyang emerged.

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To fight a negative election campaign, Jiang Wanan needs a positive answer to this matter. People often say that adversity reveals human nature. Suffering is like a touchstone. It cannot change your essence, but it can peel off your disguise. It is clear at a glance whether you are gold or gravel.

Yesterday (1009), attentive netizen jhuo__o discovered that Jiang Wanan was a civil servant who was suspected of being smeared by the Jiang Municipal Government. Jiang Wanan should not continue to pretend to be innocent and needs to answer this question head-on.

Shen Boyang and Jiang Wanan both studied law and also went to the United States to study. What is the biggest difference between the two so far in the campaign?

When the Democratic Progressive Party announced Shen Boyang's candidacy, everyone from KMT politicians to Ke Wenzhe of the People's Party, famous Chinese speakers and TVBS political commentators used sarcastic tones to humiliate Shen Boyang for his candidacy, and each tone was more harsh than the last.

This seems to be the case. Opinion polls show that Shen Boyang's support rate is significantly behind Jiang Wanan by 30%. This huge gap allows Jiang Wanan to take good care of himself, show elegance, and dismiss Shen Boyang's request for debate.

Even though he was 30% behind, Shen Boyang was not discouraged and always insisted on fighting a head-on campaign and has not changed his ambition to this day.

But when Dai Lian's poll announced that the gap between the two had narrowed to 1.2%, although Jiang Wanan still insisted that he was in the lead, he was obviously panicked and no longer as calm as before. Facing Shen Boyang, Jiang Wanan did not confront Shen Boyang head-on. Instead, he began to use his team to smear and spread rumors, and wage a negative campaign. Adversity reveals human nature, sincerity will not deceive me.

Since August, Chiang Wanan's spokesperson has been changed twice, once as the spokesperson of the Taipei City Government, and once as the spokesperson of the campaign team. Both times were for vicious smear campaigns.

Among Chiang Wanan’s new spokespersons for the Taipei City Legislative Council, Luo Zhiqiang, who is responsible for “campaign public opinion and issue attack and defense”, as a member of Congress, openly spread rumors in front of the Legislative Yuan: “The real Shen Boyang is to let the community center distribute drugs, let drugs enter our families, and let our children go to the community center to get drugs..."

Then there was a strange account on the website, which immediately took over and spread all kinds of fake news and rumors about Shen Boyang distributing drugs. This account also praised Jiang Wanan and posted photos, saying that when he went to Zhongtian to be interviewed by Guo Zhengliang, he was welcomed by Zhongtian employees.

jhuo__o discovered that the photos posted by this account were actually taken on the spot by Taipei City Government spokesperson Wei Wenxuan. After the Four Forked Cats exposure, Wei Wenxuan had no response. It was not until 15 hours later, at 1:30 in the night, that she said it was not her account, but could not explain why the video she shot on her mobile phone was posted by a fake account of the Internet Army.

Wei Wenxuan's boyfriend is Xie Keyang, an assistant to Kuomintang legislator Xu Qiaoxin. When he tried to enter the Congress with a hydraulic shear, he was stopped by the stationed police. No Congress in the world would allow dangerous items to be brought in.

However, Wei Wenxuan, as a reporter, blocked the guards from escorting her boyfriend into the National Assembly with hydraulic shears, and was punished by the Sanli Information Department.

Chiang Wanan, a former legislator, went so far as to summon Wei Wenxuan, who violated journalistic ethics and assisted in endangering the security of the National Assembly, into the Taipei City Government and became deputy spokesperson.

Later, Jiang Wanan's city government spokesman Li Zhengxuan resigned due to suspicion of corruption, and Jiang Wanan promoted Wei Wenxuan, who had violated journalistic ethics, as spokesman.

Then, according to Jiang Wanan's plan, his campaign team spokesperson and the city government spokesperson jointly spread rumors and started a negative election campaign in Taipei City. While smearing and spreading rumors, they also said that Shen Boyang was engaged in cognitive warfare.

Jiang Wanan can only show elegance when he enjoys privileges, and can be calm only when times are good. However, from changing his surname to Jiang to becoming a legislator to mayor, he has never experienced setbacks in politics during his prosperous life. Once he encounters difficulties, he realizes that his resistance to pressure is so low. He appoints evil sycophants with evil intentions and does shady scandals. How can such a character with no resistance to pressure be able to serve as a city government leader?

After Jiang Wanan studied in the United States, he worked in Silicon Valley for a while, which made him realize that his talents were mediocre and could not survive in the fierce competition. Returning to Taiwan to join politics was the greatest achievement of his life. But whether a person can maintain his achievements in the right way is the touchstone of personality.

Nowadays, the election campaign is full of chaos, slander is everywhere, and villains are flying all over the city. These people are all appointed by him personally. Jiang Wanan can no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb about this. He should explain his attitude towards the controversy between Luo Zhiqiang and Wei Wenxuan, be more clear-cut, and stop fighting negative campaigns.

Open Questions

  • What is Jiang Wanan’s specific attitude towards the dispute between Luo Zhiqiang and Wei Wenxuan?
  • What is the connection between the Cyber ​​Army account and the video shot by the spokesperson of the Beijing Municipal Government?

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