Protecting High-Ranking Officials Not to Admit Mistakes: Tsai Gov’t Is Rotten to the Bone
2019/08/21
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Protecting High-Ranking Officials Not to Admit Mistakes: Tsai Gov’t Is Rotten to the Bone
Source: China Times
August 21, 2019
Exposés about the cigarette smuggling case swirl around! If the Tsai government handled the case imprudently, it would probably be the last straw to crush the governance of the Tsai government. The problem is not whether someone makes a mistake, but to admit that the mistake has been committed, calling smuggling “buying cigarettes exceeding quotas”, “moving merchandise without authorization”, etc., first dragging out lower officials to be the scapegoats, while the higher-ups do not have to be accountable. This type of exposé would probably be coming up one after another, because rank-and-file officers could no longer stand it.
"Deep Throat" recently exposed that the funds used for smuggled cigarettes did not all come from private pockets, even saying there existed a "special agent private coffers" of an “office fund” nature. It shows that this was no longer simple improper personal behavior on the part of some figures in the office of the aide-de-camps; this behavior of utilizing public funds to smuggle cigarettes is a problem of the structure between superiors and subordinates.
Nevertheless, don’t high-ranking officials in the Presidential Palace have any responsibility what-so-ever for supervising? Doesn’t Chen Chu, the chief executive officer in the Presidential Palace, have to shoulder political responsibility?
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