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這篇報導是11月18號的 http://www.news.vu/en/news/national/041118-the-dangling-taiwan-cheque-book. shtml The dangling Taiwan chequebook may divide Cabinet By Ricky Binihi - Vanuatu Daily Post Posted Thursday, November 18, 2004 Prime Minister Serge Vohor will use today’s council of ministers meeting to persuade his cabinet accept the financial aid offer from Taiwan. But even before that important cabinet meeting there is talk that some government ministers will stick to their guns and oppose Prime Minister’s Vohor decision to establish ties with Taipei. The former Vanuatu Foreign Affairs Minister Mr Barak Sope whose ministerial portfolio was “rotated” while he was away in Australia was the first to speak boldly against the Vanuatu/Taiwan relationship. He returned home from Sydney last night. Daily Post has discovered that almost all government ministers wanted to settle the issue in cabinet and not in parliament. After Prime Minister Vohor arrived back to Port Vila from Taipei last week, he had successfully mounted a media campaign to sell the idea that Vanuatu needed US$25 Million to jump-start the rural economy and that only Taiwan was prepared to grant that amount of money. The Vanuatu Prime Minister is expected to tell members of his Cabinet to stop criticising and instead identify to the people of Vanuatu where else the government could obtain funds to build roads, schools and hospitals in the rural areas. The Minister of Public Utilities Mr Willie Jimmy and the Minister of Lands Mr Charlot Salwai travelled to Santo over the weekend to tell Prime Minister Vohor of a “collective cabinet decision” to revoke the agreement Prime Minister Vohor signed in Taiwan. Minister Salwai is the secretary General of the Union of moderate Parties of which PM Vohor is its President. According to the last week’s council of minister’s decision Vanuatu will always pledge its loyalty for the One China Policy – something it has done for the last 22 years. Event though the fate of the Vanuatu/Taiwan relationship will be decided by the Council of Ministers today only the Prime Minister can reverse the decision abroad. Daily Post has received unconfirmed reports circulating around Port Vila alleging that Prime Minister Vohor intended to add another three other ministries to consolidate the numbers required to back him in the council of ministers. A recent Parliament sitting on Constitutional amendments increased the number of ministerial portfolios from 13 to 17. During the period of the Cold War when the Soviet Union and the United Sates competed for spheres of influence in the South Pacific Vanuatu as a Non-Aligned Movement member enjoyed a bargaining strength when it came to options for aid. For instance, when Vanuatu signed a fishing agreement with the Soviets in 1987, the Americans responded by inviting Prime Minister Walter Lini for a prayer breakfast in Washington, while regionally, America’s South Pacific ally of Australia, volunteered to build a patrol boat for Vanuatu. Both the USA and Soviet Union actively tried to influence political and economical developments of the world so Vanuatu had alternative sources of aid. But the end of the Cold War in 1989 with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union caused the aid flow to spheres of influence of the West and East respectively, to reduce to a trickle. The emergence of Taiwan as an economic power coupled with Taiwan’s chequebook diplomacy to allegedly create two Chinas is gradually filling the aid vacuum that was left empty at the end of the Cold War. Already some senior government ministers have indicated to the Daily Post they oppose the Prime Minister’s decision to establish diplomatic ties with Taiwan and will “stick to their principles” and continue to adhere to the One-China-Policy. But of course some other ministers will not refuse the US$25 Million Taiwan has promised Vanuatu. 其中最傷腦筋的大概是 "But of course some other ministers will not refuse the US$25 Million Taiwan has promised Vanuatu." "[...]Vanuatu needed US$25 Million to jump-start the rural economy and that only Taiwan was prepared to grant that amount of money." 都是有關於之前國內所爭執的金錢外交問題... -- Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 61.59.121.186