The Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission has submitted blank reports for overseas inspections for 13 consecutive months. Chen Yixin blasted Li Yanhui for her negligence as an agent.

Li Yanhui, acting chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Council. (File photo, taken by reporter Wang Yisong)

In response to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Council's announcement of blank reports on study abroad expenses for 13 consecutive months, Chen Yixin, chairman of the KMT's Cultural Affairs Bureau, denounced that he had served as a convener of the Legislative Yuan's Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee and had reviewed many government budgets and business reports. He had never seen such an outrageous Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee report. Acting Chairman Lee Yeon-hui, as the head of the agency, allowed such perfunctory information to be sent to the National Assembly. This is an act of dereliction of duty and disrespect for the National Assembly. She should immediately publicly apologize.

Chen Yixin pointed out that the Overseas Chinese Affairs Council argued that there was no "inspection" budget, only "inspections", "visits" and "meetings", so it turned in nothing for 13 consecutive months. Could it be that if the inspection is renamed as a visit, the funds spent abroad do not need to be disclosed? If we change the name of an inspection to an inspection, the people will not be able to supervise it? The government cannot play word games with accounting subjects and turn information disclosure into a blank.

Chen Yixin emphasized that the Overseas Chinese Affairs Council's business spans the world, and it is necessary for officials to go abroad, but every public fund must be clearly accounted for. What the people want to know is who went abroad, where they went, how much money they spent, and what they did, not how the government named the overseas activities.

Chen Yixin demanded that Li Yanhui immediately apologize to the Legislative Yuan and the people, and publish within a time limit the complete accounts, itineraries and results reports of all business trips abroad in the past 13 months. He angrily criticized, "After 13 consecutive months of handing in blank papers, Li Yanhui still wants to hand in a blank piece of paper? This is not Congressional supervision, this is a humiliation of Congress!"