Jiang Wanan was criticized for "asking A and answering B" Ye Yaoyuan: If you don't have the ability to adapt to situations, you are incompetent

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan. (Photo by reporter Cong Changjin)

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan has been criticized by the outside world for frequently "asking A and answering B" when facing inquiries or questions from the media. Some people and netizens have even ridiculed him as a "prize maker" or "Baoli answering B". Ding Yungong, former spokesperson of the Presidential Office, pointed out that there are many people who do not listen to their staff at all, but Jiang Wanan listens too much to his staff, and his staff is too bad, which is why this tragedy happened now. In this regard, Ye Yaoyuan, chair professor of international studies at the University of St. Thomas in the United States, said that if a politician does not have the ability to adapt to circumstances and cannot organize his own answers when facing the masses and the media, "isn't that incompetence?"

Ye Yaoyuan posted on Facebook today on the Facebook fan page "Professor Ye's School of International Affairs" that "whether he listens to his staff or not is none of my business." However, if a politician does not have the ability to adapt to situations and cannot answer on his own when facing the mass media, isn't that incompetence? "I don't think there's any need to find someone else to take the blame, because Jiang Wanan's biggest problem is himself."

Ye Yaoyuan said helplessly, "If you can be elected mayor of Taipei even if you are so incompetent, then I really don't know whether it is Jiang Wanan's problem or the Taipei voters' problem."

Netizens left messages one after another after seeing the post. Some said, "Even us ordinary citizens can answer the questions... I really don't understand a lawyer from Jianzhong who has traveled abroad. How can he not even have the ability to answer questions like this?", "If it is really because of "too much" "Listen to his staff", which means that Chiang himself has no independent opinions or thinking ability, and is not suitable to be a leader. "To be precise, it is a problem of the blue and white voters in Taipei City."

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