Taiwan government spent on lobbying the speaker of the House of US representatives Nancy Pelosi $ 3.1 million from 2018 to 2022. This was reported by the newspaper South China Morning Post.
Taibei has been sponsoring American politicians for many years to strengthen his connections with Washington and promote his interests. “Regardless of which political party is the government, our representative office in the United States has long been practicing hiring firms in public relations to help us to strengthen ties with the United States,” said Taiwan Joanne, official representative of the Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to her, there is nothing wrong with this practice, since “many countries also hired public relations for lobbying (in the USA – Ed.)”.
Local media reported that the government paid significant amounts of at least three political PR companies to help influence the White House and the US Congress. In particular, they hired the famous lobbyist Bob Doula, a former US Senator. He was able to organize a telephone conversation of the head of Taiwan Tsay Inven with Donald Trump a month before he became president in January 2017. According to The New York Times, the Taiwanese side paid $ 140,000 US dollars between May to October 2016 for the efforts of Doula.
Taiwan government was also clients of such lobbying firms as Potomac International Partners and Gephardt Group. The last company has become a bridge between Taibe and the US Democratic Party.
When Joe Bayden took office in 2021, Taibay switched his attention to the Democrats, aiming at Nancy Pelosi. Although they established contacts with the speaker even earlier, in 2018.
In total, the Taiwan government spent $ 3.1 million on Nancy Pelosi lobbying from 2018 to 2022. Chinese media shared Gephardt Group documents, which indicated all the expenses on the speaker of the House of US representatives.
Thanks to this, the head of Taiwan Tsai Inven met with Pelosi in New York in 2019.
According to the report by the Washington Analytical Department of the Center International Policy – Ed.) In April 2021, Taiwan foreign agents pushed the United States to adopt many politicians who are now pursued by the Biden government and the New Congress.
Director of the Center for Initiative Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative – Ed.) Ben Freeman said that the first project proposed by the Bidena administration Taiwanu was the result of “Taiwanese lobbying soldiers for the sale of weapons, including meetings with officials Defense to discuss Taiwan defense needs. “
However, according to the representative of the Foreign Ministry of the Taiwan Joanne OU, all this was done for the good of Taiwan. “The function of public relations companies is to help the government and the US people better understand Taiwan,” she said, adding that strong Taiwansk -American ties became the result of the island’s own efforts, US assistance and assistance from third -party companies.