Senior media personality Wang Qianqiu's radio interview with Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan sparked heated discussions. Previously, Chiang Kai-shek's team had "unread the invitation" for an exclusive interview with the Blue Camp for several months, but took the initiative to appear on the cross-party live broadcast, and did not make up the interview until it was questioned. During the program, the host asked the Blue Camp seniors who were under siege by the Deep Blue for inviting cross-party candidates to be interviewed. He hoped that the mayor of the capital and the Blue Camp young masters could show their pattern and openly maintain the space for media dialogue. This "playing ball" interview, designed to show friendship and magnanimity, unexpectedly revealed four major political truths.
Senior media person Wang Qianqiu recently conducted an exclusive interview with Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan, unexpectedly allowing the outside world to see Chiang's "true face" regardless of the friendship with his party members.
First of all, it is the extreme indifference of "always only caring about yourself".
Faced with tremendous pressure from senior members of his party, Jiang Wanan did not offer support. Instead, he switched to defensive mode and turned the questions into a personal "grievance meeting" where he talked about the smear campaign against him and then recited a prepared speech. This risk-aversion reaction reveals its indifference to the situation of its allies and its calculation of personal votes.
Secondly, there is a huge disparity in the situation compared with political opponents.
When senior members of the same party were attacked by the Deep Blue for exclusive interviews with cross-party figures, and some party members even signed a petition calling for expulsion from the party, Jiang Wanan chose to keep silent for fear of offending his base. Ironically, the person who publicly stood up to defend the media person’s professionalism turned out to be Shen Boyang, a candidate from the Green Camp, who generously said, “If someone is criticized for being a media professional, we will stand by the media.” The young leader of the blue camp is eager to cut off, but the opponent of the green camp defends his seniors. The contrast between the two is very different.
Zhao Shaokang, the former chairman of China Broadcasting Corporation, was attacked by the Deep Blue camp because of his second visit to Shen Boyang. The person who publicly stood up to defend his profession as a media person was not Jiang Wanan, but Shen Boyang.
Furthermore, it exposes the "script machine" and "asking A and answering B" after leaving the script.
The exclusive interview once again verified Jiang Wanan’s bottleneck in facing impromptu questions. When faced with non-preset scripts, he habitually skips the essence of the question and repeats "Ask A and Answer B"; even if the host tries to lighten the atmosphere, the dialogue still seems awkward and he reads scripts frequently, which exposes the hole in the difficulty of having profound public dialogue without the protection of staff.
Finally, it is a matter of calculating personal interests and lacking the leadership to bear the storm.
Jiang Wanan knew that smoothing the cheeks of his senior would anger Deep Blue, condemning his senior and losing middle voters, so he chose to change the topic to his own victimization to stabilize sympathy votes. This reflects his long-term habit of "exclusively enjoying the benefits of tailwinds and letting others around him bear the burden of headwinds", and his lack of responsibility to protect the team.
The reason why Wang Qianqiu's exclusive interview with Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan was described as "exposing the truth" was mainly because the interview was originally a good opportunity for the blue media seniors to show Chiang Wanan his magnanimity and camaraderie with the party. In the end, it unexpectedly exposed his true background and leadership structure issues of "only caring about himself" and "coldly cutting allies" in the face of political pressure. The character created by public relations broke under the real test. When the senior members of the same party took on the fire net, what they showed was not tolerance, but calculated self-preservation, which became a key event to see clearly their political outlook.
