The Japan-China Congressional Council held its annual meeting in Tokyo, Japan on the evening of the 22nd, Taiwan time. President Tsai Ing-wen was invited to have a video chat with former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on Taiwan’s entry into the CPTPP, the situation in Ukraine and the regional situation. Exchange opinions on issues. The news caused heated discussions, and a large number of Taiwanese netizens left a message with the words “watching a play”, which was full of irony.
Presidential Palace spokesman Zhang Dunhan said the video chat between the two sides lasted nearly 30 minutes. Tsai Ing-wen and Shinzo Abe exchanged views on various topics such as Taiwan-Japan friendship to jointly overcome disasters and jointly fight the epidemic, Taiwan’s entry into the CPTPP, the situation in Ukraine and the regional situation, and ensuring peace and stability in the strategy of ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific.
The incident sparked heated discussions, and a large number of netizens poured into the “Zhongshi News Network” and Facebook related links to leave messages: “It’s funny, discuss with the person who left office?” “Is Abe the current Prime Minister of Japan?”, “The ball is always thrown away. Return what you have”, “pretend to be a big internal propaganda”, “no matter how much nuclear food you eat, you will not be allowed to enter, because whether you can enter or not, it is not the big brother in Japan who has the final say.”
It is worth noting that many netizens left messages with the words “watching a play”, satirizing the video chat between Tsai Ing-wen and Shinzo Abe, whether it will have substantial benefits for Taiwan’s future goals such as joining the CPTPP.
