Jiang Wanan's "privileged thinking" has become so ingrained that he didn't realize it.
Mrs. Jiang Wanan claimed that she was directly connected to Huang Renxun through personal relationships, and she was looking for trouble in the "nepotism" of the mayor's wife. The picture shows Jiang Wanan and his wife accepting an exclusive interview with Wang Weizhong.
After Shi Fanggen made the statement in an exclusive interview with Wang Weizhong that he "relyed on his engineering friends studying in the United States to connect him directly to Huang Renxun," according to technology expert Xu Meihua, Huida's internal employees were completely blown away by this statement, calling it "absolutely ridiculous."
Can an ordinary engineer defeat Jen-Hsun Huang based on personal connections? Judging from the operational logic of multinational technology giants, this rhetoric is full of loopholes.
Huida internally complained privately. They could probably guess which friend Shi Fangen was referring to, but given the employee's rank within Huida, it was impossible to directly contact or persuade Huang Renxun in the system.
Although Huang Renxun loves to visit night markets and has a people-friendly style, Huida is a technology multinational company with a market value of several trillion US dollars and the most rigorous system in the world.
Foreign businessmen and technology giants care most about corporate governance and institutional trust.
Any overseas headquarters site selection and investment with a scale of tens of billions is backed by rigorous legal, financial, real estate strategy and global supply chain assessment teams. How could it be possible for a grassroots engineer to pull the strings, and then Jiang Wanan could make Huida decide to settle in Taipei?
The "Taiwan general manager and professional team" are openly taken for granted. What offends people the most is that it tramples on corporate governance ethics and treats Huida as a "man-run company that can use the back door."
Huida has a formal Taiwan general manager and a professional public relations and government relations (GR) team in Taiwan. All formal contacts with the central government and local county and city heads, official documents and land evaluations are all run through standard channels.
Jiang Wanan and his wife claimed to have directly contacted Huang Renxun through personal relationships, which was tantamount to publicly slandering the management and executive team of Huida Taiwan Branch, implying that their professional assessment was not as good as "a phone call from the mayor and his wife."
The reason why Huida's headquarters originally gave priority to Taipei is because Taipei has the top software research and development talent pool, the industrial cluster effect of Internal Medicine and Nansoft, and the objective needs of foreign senior executives in terms of life, education and international standards.
Taipei was Huida's first choice. It wasn't "begged" by Jiang Wanan, let alone "brought in" by engineers.
But Jiang Wanan's thinking always stayed in the traditional "palace chamber" and "comprador network" of the Kuomintang.
When encountering major issues, we don't talk about systems, supporting facilities, and laws. Instead, we habitually want to show off to voters, "Look, we know high-level people in the United States, we have special channels, and we have a wide network of contacts."
Especially when these words came out of Shi Fanggen's mouth, wasn't this "nepotism" asking for trouble and involving the mayor's wife?
Jiang Wanan's family never understands what "avoidance of benefits" is, which is the same as the controversy over Jiang Deli's exchange of students at public expense.
A city chief with real governance depth should consider how to resolve the deadlock on Northco's land rights contract, how to coordinate water and electricity supply, and how to plan international bilingual schools and transportation connections, instead of talking about nepotism.
This controversy over claiming credit not only failed to add points to Jiang Wanan’s election, but instead aroused collective backlash and ridicule within the scientific and technological circles and foreign businessmen, adding to Jiang Wanan’s outsourcing record.
