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发帖数: 1567 | 1 不过就是一通电话而已，其实发了几条推特也符合老床的一贯作风，他就是没有太严肃
的去对待政治问题，大选的时候，就是哗众取宠的方式，认为个人魅力和大嘴风格博的
关注，是很不错的手段。
但是内部可以用这种方法，对外，尤其是对待中国的时候，用这种手段显然就是不高明
的了，因为中美的文化差异太大了，你再美国这样做，可以是开玩笑，但是跟中国这样
的方式来玩，那就是开国际玩笑了，中国人不太擅长在这种严肃的问题上开玩笑的。
尤其是领土问题，中国人是很认真对待的。
老床的这个电话门，其实要说针对中国展开什么很出格的行动，也真的不至于，美国国
会也不会允许一个还没上任的总统乱来，所以试探或者玩笑性质更大。
如果说跟报道的一样，老床是打算再台湾开酒店，那就更说明没有实质的什么内涵了，
无非就是为自己的商业做铺垫而已。
但是如果美国接下来真的要跟台湾亲密接触，那中国也不是好惹的，美国那边棘手的问
题也很多的，中国随便做点小动作，就比美国这个电话门厉害。
不过目前看来，应该不是什么大事儿，中国也没有当个大事儿来对待。 | z****1
发帖数: 25 | 2 http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/bob-dole-donald-trump-taiwan-232266
Dole lobbied Trump's team on Taiwan for months
Private briefings, convention delegation, tougher platform language all
preceded protocol-breaking phone call.
By Isaac Arnsdorf @ Politico 12/06/16 05:42 PM EST
Bob Dole’s lobbying Donald Trump on Taiwan went far beyond a congratulatory
phone call from Taiwan’s president.
Dole, the only past Republican presidential nominee to endorse Trump before
the election, briefed the campaign’s policy director, set up meetings
between campaign staff and Taiwanese emissaries, arranged for Taiwan’s
delegation to attend the Republican National Convention, and helped tilt the
party platform further in the island’s favor, a lobbying disclosure
document filed with the Justice Department and released to POLITICO shows.
He even arranged for members of Taiwan’s ruling party to take a White House
tour, according to the filing.
Taiwan paid the 93-year-old Dole and his law firm, Alston & Bird, $140,000
between May and October, according to the new disclosure. His spokeswoman
declined to comment.
The revelation of Dole’s extensive influence on Trump’s team follows
reports that the president-elect has been declining the advice of State
Department experts before talking with world leaders. It also contrasts with
the transition’s ban on lobbyists and Trump’s campaign pledge to forbid
his officials from lobbying for foreign governments and outlaw foreign
lobbyists’ donating to American candidates.
“It does seem very strange that Trump is ignoring the State Department
while apparently allowing Bob Dole, a lobbyist for Taiwan, to make
arrangements for him in what appears to be a change in U.S. policy dealing
with Taiwan,” said Fred Wertheimer, the founder and president of watchdog
group Democracy 21. “Dole’s interests here certainly involved Taiwan’s
interests more than it did American interests, and the fact that he was the
intermediary raises a serious issue about just how President-elect Trump is
going to make U.S. foreign policy.”
Dole’s work is part of Taiwan’s decades-long investment in grooming
conservatives to bolster its U.S. relations at China’s expense, dispatching
lobbyists to ply Capitol Hill, feting congressional staff with trips to
Taipei, throwing parties at a vast D.C. estate, and funneling money to China
hawks at right-leaning think tanks.
“They’ve spread it around pretty widely,” said Doug Paal, a researcher at
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who was the unofficial U.S.
representative to Taiwan from 2002 to 2006.
Earlier this year, Dole set up a meeting between Taiwan’s representative to
the U.S., Stanley Kao, and Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, a key Trump adviser
and later his choice for attorney general. He also convened a meeting
between Taiwanese diplomats and the Trump transition team. The disclosure
didn’t specify exactly when the meetings occurred.
The filing also reveals Dole’s hand in making the Republican platform the
most pro-Taiwan it has ever been. The 2016 edition added language affirming
the “Six Assurances” that President Ronald Reagan made to Taiwan’s
security in 1982.
The U.S. recognized Taiwan as the legitimate government of China from the
1949 Communist takeover until President Richard Nixon’s first steps to
normalize relations with the mainland in 1972. Since then, deepening
economic ties between the U.S. and mainland China have stoked fears in
Taiwan that the U.S. might waver in its commitment to Taiwan’s defense.
Dole’s role in the phone call was first reported by The Wall Street Journal
. “It’s fair to say that we may have had some influence,” he told the
Journal.
Not all of Taiwan’s lobbyists were in on the plan, a person familiar with
the matter told POLITICO. It even left out Taiwan’s pseudo-embassy, the
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, whose officials found
out about it from media reports.
“This is sudden news for us as well,” said Thalia Lin, executive officer
of TECRO’s press division. “The whole office has no idea what’s going on.”
The U.S. emissary from Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party,
Michael Fonte, said he had only a few hours’ heads-up.
“Honestly, I have not had any marching orders what to do pro or con,”
Fonte told POLITICO. “Nobody in Taipei has said, 'You’ve got to do XYZ.'”
Taiwan spends more than $170,000 a month ($2 million a year) on a fleet of
outside lobbyists led by former lawmakers. In addition to Alston & Bird,
Taiwan pays the firms of former Democratic Senate leader Tom Daschle, former
Republican Senator Don Nickles, former Florida Republican Congressman
Lincoln Diaz-Balart, and former House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt. The
law and lobbying firm Crowell & Moring is also on retainer.
Trump’s accepting the phone call shattered decades of diplomatic protocol
eschewing official relations with Taiwan, leading China to lodge a formal
complaint with the White House.
Taiwan’s ties to the Republican National Committee run especially deep.
Reince Priebus, Trump’s choice for White House chief of staff, met with
Taiwan’s previous president on a 2011 visit in his role as RNC chairman.
The chairman of the Idaho Republican Party, Steve Yates, is a longtime
advocate of strengthening the U.S. security commitment to Taiwan and also
used to lobby for the country, disclosures show. He told the Idaho Statesman
he wasn’t involved in Trump’s phone call and didn’t return a request for
comment while he is traveling — in Taiwan, according to his assistant.
Trump’s transition is also stocked with staffers from the Heritage
Foundation, which has received funding from Taiwanese companies. They
include Steven Groves, who is on the team responsible for the handoff at the
State Department, and Ed Feulner, the conservative think tank’s former
president and an adviser to the Trump transition, who met with the Taiwanese
president in Taipei in October.
The Heritage Foundation has received money for 30 years from three Taiwanese
companies, according to Walter Lohman, who leads the organization’s Asia
Studies Center. Lohman, who was also traveling, said he couldn’t recall the
companies’ names but that they’re displayed on plaques in his office.
Still, he said they don’t directly fund or influence the foundation’s
research.
“We’re glad to have that funding, of course, but we would be still be
committed to this relationship to Taiwan if these companies gave us no
funding starting tomorrow,” he said. “There’s nothing nefarious about it.”
In late October, TECRO’s deputy representative spoke at a Heritage
Foundation discussion on Taiwan’s foreign policy.
“We work together all the time, but we don’t often have representatives
come here and speak from the stage,” Lohman said at the event.
Taiwan also provides funding to the American Enterprise Institute and the
Center for Strategic & International Studies, which are both home to
prominent pro-Taiwan voices, according to the groups’ disclosures.
“I think Taiwan deserves this kind of courtesy,” Mike Green, a former
National Security Council staffer now at CSIS, said of Trump’s phone call
with the Taiwanese president. “It’s not a policy, it’s a gesture.”
A CSIS spokesman said most of Taiwan’s money pays for executive training
for its own senior officials, and Green doesn’t get any direct funding from
Taiwan.
Trump’s phone call was “a good first step toward rebalancing a trilateral
China-Taiwan-U.S. relationship” and “higher-level engagement with Taiwan
serves U.S. national interests and values,” Dan Blumenthal, a former
Pentagon official now at AEI, co-wrote in the National Interest yesterday.
The right-leaning think tank’s 2009 donor list, which was mistakenly made
public, showed a $550,000 contribution, its fourth-largest, from TECRO.
An AEI spokesman said the think tank no longer accepts foreign donations.
Think tanks also have become more careful, in response to criticism, about
insulating donors from researchers. But it’s still widespread for lobbyists
, foreign governments and other causes to seek out and support people who
share their viewpoints.
“The Taiwan lobby has been much more identified with the far right,” said
Robert Torricelli, the former New Jersey senator who used to lobby for TECRO.
A new think tank opened two months ago, the first dedicated solely to Taiwan
. It is known as the Global Taiwan Institute. The organization is privately
funded and not affiliated with the Taiwanese government, according to its
director, Russell Hsiao. Its advisory board includes prominent researchers
such as Gordon Chang, William Stanton and John Tkacik, who have all
supported Trump’s phone call. Reps. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) and Ileana Ros-
Lehtinen (R-Fla.) attended the group’s launch party.
Taiwan was once considered one of Washington’s most fearsome lobbies, the
way people talk today about the National Rifle Association and the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee. That stature diminished when President
Jimmy Carter normalized relations with China in 1979, initiating the new U.S
. posture toward the Chinese-Taiwanese dispute that Trump has now scrambled.
On Capitol Hill, much of the direct lobbying comes from TECRO itself.
“They made a real commitment to being a presence on the Hill,” said Lester
Munson, a former Senate staffer now with the lobbying firm BGR. “Anytime
their issue was on the agenda, they were there. It’s pretty impressive work
by them.”
Taiwan pays for congressional staff to visit the country on trips, according
to a State Department list of approved programs obtained by POLITICO. Such
sponsored travel would be illegal coming from corporate lobbyists, but is
allowed from foreign governments under the Mutual Education and Cultural
Exchange Act. Not only that, but the trips are never publicly disclosed or
even centrally tracked.
In 2012, Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.) personally paid back a Taiwan university
for a luxurious trip to Taiwan that was arranged by lobbying firm Park
Strategies, then working for TECRO.
Staffers, researchers and diplomats can be found mingling every October at
Taiwan’s National Day celebration at its sprawling Twin Oaks estate in
Washington’s Cleveland Park neighborhood. The event typically features a
circus-size tent full of food and drink, according to people who have
attended.
Taiwanese interests also benefit from a large and vocal Taiwanese-American
community, with groups such as the Formosan Association for Public Affairs.
Rep. Ed Royce, the California Republican who chairs the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, employs Chinese-speaking staff and has a special Taiwan-
focused biography on his website.
Royce visited Taiwan on an official delegation this May and June, joined by
Reps. Bill Flores (R-Texas) and Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), according to
congressional records.
“I don't think it's that big of an issue,” Royce said of Trump’s phone
call on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" Tuesday. |
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