KMT Press Release

KMT Press Release

January 7, 2008

Chang Jung-kung, KMT Central Policy Committee Deputy Executive Secretary and KMT Mainland Affairs Department Director, said on January 5 that President Chen Shui-bian, embarrassed after the KMT successfully nullified his three-stage scheme of “tying up the plebiscite with the election, making the election chaotic, and ruining the election” with the “Say No to Plebiscite” campaign, resorted to his old trick of accusing political opponents of being pro-Mainland China in a fit of rage. “But the voters have already grown tired of this. It is a sign that Chen is at his wits’ end regarding Taiwan’s deteriorating economy. All he has left now is his loud mouth,” added Chang.

Chang said the people have already seen through Chen’s motives in accusing KMT Honorary Chairman Lien Chan and the KMT of following the orders of Mainland China and launching the “Say No to Plebiscite” campaign. “The people have witnessed Chen’s toying with and defiling the plebiscite. The unity between KMT’s Lien, Wu Po-hsiung (KMT Chiarman), Ma Ying-jeou (KMT Presidential candidate), and Wang Jin-pyng (Legislature Speaker) provides a stark contrast to the discord between Chen and DPP Presidential candidate Frank Hsieh, leaving the terrified Chen with no choice but to launch another wave of attacks at the KMT by accusing it of teaming up with Mainland China against Taiwan. This is another one of his lousy tactics following his recent pestering of the late Presidents Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo,” added Chang.

Citing the words of Lien in his speech at Peking University in 2005, “There are people out there who believe I’m trying to team up with Mainland China against Taiwan, or against Taiwan independence. This is absolutely outrageous,” Chang marveled at Chen’s diehard habit of telling lies after hearing Chen repeatedly say, “Lien admits conspiring with Mainland China against Taiwan.”

Chang revealed that he himself had once fallen victim to Chen lies, “On the eve of the mayoral and county executive elections two years ago, Chen told voters that I said that “reconciliation is only possible between the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party, and that there’s nothing but dogfights between the KMT and the DPP”. Voters have turned their back on Chen’s dirty trick of making pro-Communist accusations in the eleventh hour of elections. I will happily eat any documentary evidence of my saying the things Chen accused me of saying, and I will love to see Chen gobbling down a page from a newspaper if he can’t find any evidence,” said Chang.

Chang predicted that the DPP would again make up stories of the KMT conspiring with Communist China to intimidate voters in the run-up to the legislative elections. “But what the people really care about is which political party can solve the crisis in the Taiwan Strait and revive Taiwan’s economy. Apparently Chen is capable of neither. He is firing pro-Communist accusations at random, like a mad man. Maybe former President Lee Teng-hui is right in calling Chen mad, crazy, insane!” added Chang.

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