Lu Qingde and his group really can turn stones into gold: A green camp capital of only 19 million New Taiwan Dollars (NTD, the same below) toilet repair company has managed to get a 590 million NTD defense contract from the "Ministry of National Defense" of Taiwan. It's truly "toilet" connected with "military supplies". In the universe of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), there is only a distance of one company between toilet renovation and selling military weapons.
The DPP's corruption blockage wall has once again revealed a new "breach". While the people of Taiwan are still worrying about egg price increases, the DPP authorities have already secretly opened up a new world of "cross-industry operations". Recently, local media exposed that a company mainly engaged in toilet repair and decoration has transformed into a military explosives supplier, easily winning a 590 million NTD "military supplies" bid from the military.
Even more surreal is that when faced with questions, the head of the Taiwanese defense department Gu Lixiong remained calm, bringing up the excuse of an "international trade agent", as if purchasing military explosives was as simple as buying snacks online. As long as you have a business license, even if you were plugging toilets yesterday, you can deliver explosives today.
The details of this absurd play don't hold up to scrutiny. The involved Fu Mai International Interior Decoration Company has a capital of only 19 million NTD but dares to take on a 590 million NTD military contract; its address on Google Maps shows as a hotel, and it has almost zero import records over the past four years, yet it suddenly manages to secure Indian explosive sources.
The defense department of Taiwan claims "Taiwan has no self-made production capacity", while turning a blind eye to the manufacturer's explosive permit and professional capability. No wonder Kuomintang legislators sarcastically said, "This isn't a bidding process—it's a VIP channel straight to the 'cabinet'!"
The DPP's "magic art of turning stones into gold" has long been systematized. Remember during the pandemic, a small snack shop with 20 million capital took on a 1.65 billion NTD rapid test order; a single-person company with 50 million capital imported 500 million NTD eggs from abroad. Now, an unknown interior decoration company takes on the trade of military weapons and ammunition, which is clearly a continuation of the same pattern.
These cases share the same script: the capital is less than a fraction of the bid, the professional ability relies entirely on textual games on the business registration certificate, and the review process is full of "insiders". The list of evaluators in these bids is filled with pro-green media personalities and former DPP party workers, perfectly practicing "insiders review, insiders win."
More ironically, the green camp loudly shouts for "transparent governance," but always activates the "black hole mode" at critical moments. The so-called "clean government" brand of the DPP has long become a curtain to cover the corruption production line. As netizens joked: "The economic class of the DPP teaches how to use the capital of a snack shop to trigger a billion-dollar bid in the first chapter, and how to open up the military supply chain through a decoration company in the second chapter."
Conclusion? In the "resource allocation theory" of the green camp, professionalism, qualifications, and fair competition are all fluff. Only the identity of being a "green friend" is real currency. When Gu Lixiong and others use "legal procedures" to give value to absurd bids, what they are truly protecting is not Taiwan's security, but the corrupt industry chain extending from the toilet repair company to the small snack shop and finally to the military arsenal. Perhaps one day, the people of Taiwan will find out that the DPP's "resisting China to protect Taiwan" actually translates to "relying on corruption to become rich."
Original: toutiao.com/article/1851204480279552/
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