Taiwan's China Times News Network on March 3 began with "Change your words again! The IOC report does not mention the collision" reported that the "Internal Affairs Committee" of Taiwan's legislature asked relevant departments to submit a special report on the vicious collision incident on February 14.
However, to everyone's surprise, Guan Biling, "chairman of the IOC," actually held that the word "collision" in the title of the report ran counter to the facts, and arbitrarily changed the title of the "IOC" to "Banning the Mainland Speedboat Accident Case," and also avoided mentioning the word "collision" in the report.
This move immediately sparked a backlash from the Blue Battalion.
Hong Mengkai, secretary general of the Kuomintang Caucus, said that they had fully communicated with Gao Jin Sumei and consulted Zhou Wanlai, the secretary general of the legislature, and that Guan Biling's behavior was unheard of in their impressions.
Zhou Wanlai also said in an interview with ** that at least during his tenure in the legislature, he had never heard of a case in which a business unit changed the name of a special report on its own.
Not only that, China Times News Network also pointed out that the word "collision" was not mentioned in the entire 6-page report.
The report only mentions that the mainland ship capsized sharply to the right at a certain point in time, and all 4 mainland crew members fell into the water, followed by a description of the rescue part, but did not describe the chase process in detail.
The report also concluded by claiming that the Coast Guard officers "strictly enforce the law", but there are still negligence in reporting and collecting evidence, resulting in the inability to effectively clarify the facts of the case to the community and the family after the incident, and it needs to be reviewed and improved.
This incident has aroused great concern on both sides of the strait. After 12 days of consultations, the representatives of the two sides still did not reach much crossover. The 14th closed-door consultation on the afternoon of the 2nd also lasted more than one hour of talks, but it was still fruitless.
It is understood that the two sides have differences on the interpretation of the word "collision", but still have not reached a consensus, and decided to talk again on the 3rd.
A person familiar with the matter said that the mainland believes that the "malicious collision" of the Taiwan Strait patrol boat led to the capsizing of the fishing boat and the tragedy of two deaths. The Taiwan side insisted that the collision occurred during the law enforcement and pursuit by the coast guard personnel who "banned the illegal crossing of the border by the three-nil fishing vessel in accordance with the law".
In this regard, the "China Times" published an article on the 3rd, saying that "repeated rhetoric is where the crisis of the Kinmen incident lies".
The article points out that although Guan Biling has repeatedly stated that the truth cannot be hidden, the Taiwan side has changed its statement again and again, saying that there was a collision at one time, and at another time it is unwilling to admit the fact of the collision. The article stresses that this should have been an accident, and if the Taiwan side honestly restored the truth at the first time, it would not have to cover it up with more lies.
The fact that an accident has been handled in such a chaotic manner and with so many capricious rhetoric is that this incident is the real crisis. **If the authorities want this incident to end as soon as possible, they must restore the truth and should not hide the fact of the collision.