New Power Party legislative candidate Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) yesterday blasted a report by China Times Weekly magazine alleging that his “anti-China stance is all fake, as his father-in-law has made grand investments in Shandong, China.”
The story said that while the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)-led green camp has been slamming Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Eric Chu (朱立倫) over his father-in-law’s investments in China’s agricultural industry and his alleged exporting of Taiwanese agricultural technology to China, “[DPP presidential candidate] Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) should demand that the green camp hold Huang, whom Tsai supports, to the same standards and examine his father-in-law’s business.”
According to the report, Huang’s father-in-law, Kao Hsi-chih (高熙治), has invested more than NT$100 million (US$3.02 million) in Shandong Province’s ecological agriculture park, which was publicly lauded by the Chinese media in 2007.
“It makes one wonder how Huang, who is famous for manipulating anti-Chinese sentiment and Taiwanese independence ideology, views his father-in-law’s investments,” the report said.
“Should he not explain his father-in-law’s business in China when all the while he has been asking for votes by upholding the anti-China banner?” it asked.
Huang, one of the leaders of the Sunflower movement, wrote on Facebook that he had been trying to avoid responding to Want Want China Times Group (旺旺中時媒體集團), as it is “not a normal media group that is professional and possesses basic news ethics.”
“Today, the group is so desperate to help Chu that it chose to whip up suspicion over my father-in-law’s business, which I find most ludicrous,” Huang wrote.
“The ‘report’ is full of mistakes and not fact-based, but since it is Want Want China Times Group that published the story, it should not be that surprising at all,” he wrote.
“I have never asked my father-in-law about his business, and he did not donate anything to my campaign. In terms of politics, we have our respective political stances, which we mutually respect,” he said.
Huang added that he had made it clear from the start and had publicly declared many times that he is not against Chinese people.
“What I am against are the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] and the Taiwanese businesses that are fawning all over the CCP, such as the Want Want Group and Ting Hsin International Group,” he said.
“The person who has been most enraged by this story is my mother-in-law. Originally a ‘deep blue’ [referring to those loyal to the KMT], she said she would never vote for the KMT again. This is probably an accomplishment that should be attributed to, as unlikely as it might seem, Want Want China Times Group,” Huang said.
Kao Hsi-chih told the China Times Weekly that politics is rarely discussed at home and that he had invested in Shandong “out of consanguineous” rather than commercial interest, as it is his birthplace and he still has relatives there.
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