Crossing over the line of autonomous

【縛雞之見】
Japan provides Taiwan 1.2 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines for the Covid-19. 

Although there were rumors in a couple of days that it will realize before the end of June; however, NHK’s report surprises most hopeless Taiwanese people.

Japan keeps the information so secretly that even the officers of the Taiwan government are not aware of the announcement. Frank Hsieh, Taiwan’s Ambassador to Japan, posted some related cold chain issues yesterday. The MoFA is also speechless, saying that no further comment provides. The President and the Prime Minister, who is supposed to say something in time, have no comment, too. Even Yaita Akio, a notable journalist of the Sankei Shimbun, does not know the news and still guesses the date is around June 18th.

The situations indicate a crucial truth: it detours the Taiwan government from the whole process. The question is critical: which party dominates the operation?

Let me remind the farewell speech of AIT Taipei Director W. Brent Christensen on May 25th. In responding to a journalist's question, Ambassador Christensen said that the infection numbers and the victims of Taiwanese people are low, comparing to the neighboring countries. That is unnecessary and improper language an ambassador can give. No reasonable explanation could be understood, except that Christensen was tired of negotiating the dark side of the vaccines for Taiwan.

Autonomy does not mean that the governor and the officers could do whatever they like, as long as the issue domestic. No, it is not a thing like that. The autonomy has its limit: not to sabotage the interest of the administrating authority, the U.S., and to enhance the friendship between the two.

The result of no vaccines that Taiwan authorities are dealing with has failed and is becoming a disaster.

It will impair the friendship and the trust of Taiwanese people over the U.S. What is more, it will unchain the first island chain. The most likely scenario is that Taiwan's IC industries can not ship a chip because the operators to be infected.

The vaccine shortage is quite similar to the devastating Moraku Typhoon of 2009, in which former President Ma asked the relief from the PLA, and resisted help from the U.S.

Taiwanese people will alienate from the U.S. if the situation of no vaccines continues.