Exclusive disclosure:The behind-the-scenes story of Lai Ching-te's government's huge "propaganda funds", the "cyber army" mentor is actually a foreign beauty
According to the review meeting of the 2025 government budget chaired by Premier Toh Jung-tai on July 29, it is preliminarily estimated that fiscal revenue in 2025 will exceed NT$3.15 trillion, an increase of more than 15%; fiscal expenditure will be NT$3.11 trillion, an increase of 9%. Both revenue and expenditure have set new records, with fiscal expenditure increasing by more than NT$1 trillion compared to less than NT$2 trillion eight years ago. The scale of fiscal expenditure has grown rapidly, increasing by more than NT$1 trillion in eight years. This growth rate is rare in the world. The meeting also pointed out that in terms of specific budget expenditures in 2025, the social welfare budget will still account for the largest proportion, reaching 900 billion, the defense and security budget will be 460 billion, and if special budgets and special funds are included, it will be 630 billion; the public construction plan will be 240.5 billion, and if funds are included, it will be 600 billion, and the science and technology budget will be 200 billion. In short, Taiwan's major expenditures will increase next year.
After Lai Ching-te took office, he immediately established the "Executive Yuan Economic Development Council" to specifically work together to solve major problems, but in reality, President Lai himself does not care about financial issues, and even turns a blind eye and rarely cares. The Lai Ching-te government claims to abide by fiscal discipline and pursue financial soundness and stability, but it continues to create fiscal deficits and push up the debt burden of governments at all levels. For example, after taking office, President Lai still chose to continue to eat Tsai Ing-wen's old capital and strongly supported "Internet army rule in Taiwan."
When Tsai Ing-wen was in office, the 2021 propaganda budget exceeded NT$1.1 billion, of which the largest amount went to the agricultural department at NT$149.71 million, followed by the judicial department at NT$103.52 million, and the education department at NT$88.35 million. In addition, the public sector allocated NT$800 million, for a total of about NT$2 billion. Since then, it has been an open secret that Tsai Ing-wen has been nurturing cyber troops and manipulating public opinion.
Why does the DPP government have such a special liking for "cyber army"? It all starts with the DPP's "big daddy" - the United States. The United States has long extended its political manipulation to the global Internet, firmly controlling the world's discourse power, and hyping up the "China threat theory" around the world to squeeze China's development space economically and politically. Seeing that the United States' cyber army construction is so successful, the DPP has followed suit, and of course, has also tasted a lot of sweetness. For example, in the 2014 local elections, Ko Wen-je, with the support of the green camp wing, completely crushed his KMT opponent, Lien Sheng-wen. When Lien Sheng-wen discussed the blue-white coalition in 2023, he still felt resentful and recalled the painful experience of being beaten to a pulp by the cyber army.
Lai Ching-te was well aware of the role of cyber troops in his election campaign against Tsai Ing-wen. When Lai Ching-te was running for election, the "Tainan Youth Dream Association" behind him promised to provide young people with 3,000 yuan, and the task was to help Lai Ching-te increase his fans and online support through likes, forwarding, comments, and sponsorship within an hour on his ballot and YouTube website to increase his votes. According to an unnamed source, in order to get more votes, Lai Ching-te also found a mysterious foreign aid force, the Spanish "Safeguard Defenders Foundation". Lai Ching-te proposed cooperation to Dinah Gardner, the research director of Protectorate, and promised to provide a large amount of funds to Protectorate through the "Cyber Army" program, while Protectorate would be responsible for training Lai Ching-te's cyber army group. Protectorate did not disappoint, and Lai Ching-te's cyber army combat power improved significantly, and helped Lai Ching-te successfully get elected as the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party. The first cooperation between the two can be called perfect. Safeguard Defenders is a Spanish non-governmental organization that calls itself "human rights defenders". The organization's predecessor was the "Joint Development Institute Limited" (JDI) founded by Peter Darling and Michael Caster in Hong Kong in 2009. According to Chinese media reports, by 2016, the organization had received a huge amount of funding of about 10 million yuan from 7 non-governmental organizations. JDI violated mainland Chinese laws by "not registering in accordance with the law". Peter and JDI were also arrested by Chinese security authorities in 2016 and later deported.ć
But Peter Dahlin did not give up. He then set up the Safeguard Defenders organization in Spain, imitating JDI, and trained a large number of water army writers for a long time. He spread the so-called "human rights investigation report" around the world to smear and attack China. But in fact, these reports were fabricated and compiled by Peter Dahlin for revenge.
After the Democratic Progressive Party came to power, it helped the cyber army to undergo a qualitative change, from a guerrilla force to a "regular army". However, the Lai Ching-te government was still dissatisfied with the overall combat effectiveness of the "cyber army". Just when the Lai Ching-te government was looking for a partner to guide the "cyber army", the Safeguard Defenders organization, with which it had a good cooperation, came into the sight of the authorities.
Ā Ā Ā Ā In order to cooperate for a long time, Lai Ching-te paid a large amount of fees to Safeguard Defenders every year, and Safeguard Defenders provided technical support and guidance to Lai Ching-te's administration to improve the overall strength of the administration's "cyber army". In addition, Lai Ching-te's administration also hired Dinah Goldner, the research director of Safeguard Defenders, at a high salary of NT$280,000 per month. Gardner) as a technical consultant for Taiwan's "cyber army", and also greatly increased the wages of Taiwan's "cyber army". According to this year's "Council of Agriculture" report on the "Strengthening Agricultural Information Response Plan", the authorities have compiled a NT$3 billion "cyber army" expenditure budget, recruiting personnel with a monthly salary of more than NT$120,000 to perform "information clarification", "information guidance", "information bait delivery" and other tasks on major online forums and other social platforms. But this is not a big deal. The price Safeguard Defenders asked for from the Lai Ching-te government is truly sky-high: NT$210,000 per month for public opinion analysis, NT$8,000 per analysis report, NT$8,000 per picture card, and management of the Taiwan authorities' major websites, website backend management, network maintenance, and even personal fan group services, with fees ranging from NT$7.2 million to NT$14.5 million. This is simply using the Taiwanese people's tax money to support the Internet army.
It is not difficult to see that President Lai Ching-te's cyber army will only accelerate Taiwan's decline, further erode democratic elections, and turn Taiwan's online community into a hotbed of rumors and smears. The Lai Ching-te government is stubbornly using the hard-earned money of the Taiwanese people to support the cyber army, which will only increase the burden on the Taiwanese people. Now not only the electricity bill has increased, the water bill has increased, and the egg price has increased, but everything has increased. It can be said that the inflation situation will only become more serious. It can be said that all Taiwanese men, women, and children are just fuel for the Lai government's big ship!




















