2024 ROC Prez and Legislative elections Jan 13th

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Now the Tsai trip to the USA is over it is clear what took place.  Biden administration-PRC made a deal to make this trip very low-key at the expense of Tsai and McCarthy.  When Tsai was "transiting" through NYC, the NYC mayor and NY governor did not show up even though all other ROC Prez "transit" through NYC since the 1990s almost have one of them if not both show up. Tsai did not meet anyone from the Biden administration.  The  Tsai-McCarthy meeting was very low key and that seems to be mostly a Tsai decision.  The Biden administration must have put pressure on Tsai to keep that meeting low-key so
McCarthy cannot score any political points.

Given what the Biden administration has done I expect PRC soon to respond to USA's desires for a Biden-Xi call as well as a Yellen visit to PRC.  I am sure the purpose of such a Yellen trip will be to say to the PRC "I know you are selling treasuries, in the summer we will have a USA debt limit crisis in a political battle against the GOP, and we need you to stop selling during that period which could make the crisis worse"

Well, I wish Yellen the best of luck for her PRC trip.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

A scandal breaks out for the DPP incumbent of New Taipei 7th district (Green +1) 羅致政(Lo Chih-Cheng).  It seems he had an affair with his assistant back in 2017 and videos from 2017 of him and his assistant in bed appeared on porn sites in the USA.  Just yesterday these videos were being released to the ROC media.



Lo is dancing around on if he had an affair back in 2017 but denies that the man in the videos is him.  The DPP claims that the PRC is behind these video releases.

The New Taipei 7th district is considered a tossup district where a KMT MLA with pretty strong local roots is challenging Lo.  I still had DPP holding this seat given the lean of the district and incumbency advantage.  It seems this seat might be more at risk for the DPP.

The PRC Taiwan Affairs Office held a rare press conference to address the claims of the DPP MP 羅致政(Lo Chih-Cheng) saying that the sex videos of him (and two other women) are fakes produced by the PRC.  Their message is "We have no idea about anything to do with these sex tapes but they have nothing to do with us."

Ironically, the tabloid that broke these videos is owned by one 璩美鳳(Chu Mei-feng) who wrote a public letter defending her decision to release these sex tapes and that her tabloids have determined that these tapes are authentic and tampered with.

Chu was a TV anchor and then a youth NP superstar in the mid-1990s when she was in her 20s and served a term as NP MLA for Taipei City.  She and now KMT VP candidate Chao also recruited her good friend 黃珊珊(Huang Shan-shan), now leading the TPP PR list, to take her place as NP MLA when her term came up.  In 2001 Chu had an affair with a married man and her disgruntled friend made several films with that ill-fated couple in "action."  Her disgruntled friend then sold those taps to a tabloid and due to the good looks and good "technique" by this couple, those sex tapes became the most-watched porn in ROC history.  Chu was on the cover of every tabloid magazine in 2001


Chu, her life ruined, went to the PRC for a few years to go into business.  She eventually came back and then took over a tabloid herself.  Now, going full circle where she is most famous for being in some sex tapes over 20 years ago she is defending the right of her tabloid to release sex tapes.

This whole story is too strange to be fiction.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Is it crazy to say the KMT losing this election would be good news for the KMT?