A 6.8-magnitude earthquake occurred in Taitung on the 18th, causing a lot of disaster in Huadong. However, yesterday (19th), President Tsai Ing-wen was revealed that he left after reading the manuscript while attending the disaster prevention meeting. Although Tsai has apologized, it still caused a topic. In this regard, Chen Fengxin, a senior media person, took her own experience in the 921 earthquake in 1999, and Zhang Shanzheng, the then Executive President, visited the Tainan earthquake site many times in 2016, and was called “Tainan’s best friend”. It is necessary to go to the first scene during the catastrophe.
Chen Fengxin first criticized Tsai Ing-wen for being cold-blooded and for not communicating with the Hualien and Taitung County Governments on the political talk show “Shaokang Situation Room” yesterday. At the same time, she also bluntly said that the presidents of the past major earthquakes rushed to the scene as soon as possible. Chen mentioned that during the September 21 earthquake in 1999, he tried his best to squeeze into the special plane at 4:00 in the morning and arrived at Puli National Middle School at 9:00, “because the president, vice president, and chief executive at that time had already arrived in Puli.”
Chen Fengxin said frankly that although there were many discussions on “whether it is necessary for the chief to come to the scene during disaster relief,” she thought it was necessary because of her experience in 1999. According to Chen’s analysis, disasters are very different from daily life. Every administrative department in China is very familiar with what they should do, but in the event of a disaster, it is easy to make omissions. Therefore, for the chief executive, in addition to comforting and understanding the needs of the victims, he can also take care of the omissions. Tightening the screws “actually plays a very important role.”
Finally, Chen Fengxin also mentioned that when the Weiguan Building collapsed due to an earthquake in Tainan in 2016, then President Ma Ying-jeou and Executive Director Zhang Shanzheng had already arrived at the scene on the morning of the incident. Lai Qingde is called Tainan’s best friend, “Is there no help?”