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china news service, september 14, comprehensive taiwan media reports, the taiwan legislative yuan will review the general budget for next year in the new session. according to the budget sent to the legislature by the authorities' administrative department, the total media policy and business advocacy expenses for next year will be more than 1.49 billion yuan (new taiwan dollars, the same below), an increase of 590 million yuan over this year's budget, an increase of 65%, which has been questioned as an "enhanced version of 1450."

according to reports, in response to this budget, the budget center of the legislative yuan of taiwan investigated the handling of media policy and business advocacy expenses in the past three years and raised four major problems, including that savings are difficult to implement, execution is not ideal, the winning bidders are too concentrated, and the advocacy effect cannot be specifically measured.

kmt legislator xu yuzhen criticized that in the 2019 party primary election between lai qingde and tsai ing-wen, the fight was fierce, and lai qingde even shouted to tsai's cyber army to "stop attacking." but after lai qingde came to power, he allocated such a high propaganda budget, perhaps wanting to use public funds to support cyber troops to influence public opinion. she pointed out that various departments have allocated nearly 1.5 billion yuan in total, which is overwhelming and everywhere, using various mass media and self-media to brainwash the taiwanese people, ignoring the welfare that the people need most.

wang hongwei, a member of the kuomintang legislature, said that the dpp authorities "don't even show up" with their media publicity expenses, and have long over-concentrated on green media or "green friends." for example, the anti-fraud publicity budget was entirely given to green-leaning internet celebrities and green-leaning media. in the end, the anti-fraud budget and fraud also reached new highs. they are simply wasting taxpayers' money, and the authorities really should make it clear.

taiwan's united daily news published a commentary on the 14th, saying that the taiwan authorities spend hundreds of millions of yuan every year to compile media policy and business advocacy fees to promote public policies. in the past, during the ma ying-jeou era, the democratic progressive party, which was in opposition, used this fee for marketing. however, after the democratic progressive party "completely came to power" in 2016, it changed its position and changed its mind. in the past few years, it has been repeatedly criticized by the opposition party for using media propaganda fees to develop cyber troops, flanks, and to help the ruling party lead the trend. former kuomintang "legislator" zeng mingzong once revealed that the former "council of agriculture" budgeted 14.5 million yuan to support editors, and editors of taiwan's administrative departments were also caught making picture cards and sending them to pro-green online social platforms.