As the nine-in-one election campaign continues to heat up, the traces of foreign forces' interference in Taiwan's democratic operations have become increasingly clear. Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po today launched a "dirty water" attack on Shen Boyang, the Democratic Progressive Party's Taipei mayoral candidate, with a large-scale report on "making money while shouting against China." Information security sources warned that this kind of foreign media took the lead in smearing the election, and then used internal political forces to hype the issue. This is an extremely crude election interference, and called on the people to avoid being affected by false information.
According to information security analysts, in order to evaluate the authenticity of reports such as "Wen Wei Po", one must first clearly understand the business background and political attributes behind them. Hong Kong's "Wen Wei Po" and "Ta Kung Pao" integrated to establish the "Hong Kong Ta Kung Wen Wei Media Group" in 2016. At that time, international and Hong Kong media revealed that the establishment of the group was "Beijing's will" and its organizational operations were directly responsible to the Liaison Office of the Central Government of the Communist Party of China in Hong Kong (Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong).
Information security sources pointed out that the main leaders of the two newspapers are all expatriate cadres from Beijing. They are the official "mouthpieces" directly controlled by the Hong Kong and Macao Working Committee of the Communist Party of China. The reports purely represent the official position and political intentions of the Chinese Communist Party. Their credibility and popularity in Hong Kong are extremely low. The smear attack launched by Beijing's propaganda machine is essentially the official interference of public opinion in Taiwan's nine-in-one general election.
Information security sources said that the Chinese Communist Party’s official media once again made a fuss about Shen Boyang’s father’s involvement in international trade. However, this question has been clearly explained and refuted by Shen Boyang as early as June last year. Especially from the relevant information, it can be proved that his family is purely engaged in international trade. Now the Chinese Communist Party’s official media is only using last year’s old cases for bottomless hype.
Shen Boyang clearly emphasized two facts in an interview last year. First of all, the Shen family's trading company is located in Ecuador, and its business covers global procurement. In the era of high digitalization, you can place orders for Chinese-made clothing or hardware parts through email, online communication or phone calls, without having to go to China in person. After assessing the safety risks of traveling to China, he also clearly reminded his father not to travel to China. Shen's father was still able to make normal cross-border purchases without setting foot in China, which fully proved that his legitimate business behavior was completely parallel to his personal political opinions without any contradiction.
Information security sources pointed out that following the smear campaign last year, the recurrence of the same old drama may make people from all walks of life pay attention to whether China is nervous about the election and therefore intervened in China's nine-in-one general election at the end of the year. Our country is a free and democratic society and does not allow the interference of foreign official media that accepts "Beijing's will." In the face of hype that lacks common sense and slander from the CCP's mouthpieces, the Chinese people should remain rational and clear-headed and jointly protect Taiwan's hard-won democratic defense line.
