Chapter 395: Pit Boss
This year, Asia Satellite TV has launched in-depth cooperation with China Central Television in two major broadcasts of the Los Angeles Olympics and the National Day Military Parade. So much so that some far-right people in Hong Kong directly gave ATV the nickname of "Hong Kong's Beijing-Beijing Television Station."
Taiwan Television is Taiwan's first state-run television station, and its status on the island is similar to that of the mainland's Central Television Station. Seeing that the cooperation between ATV and China Central Television is getting closer and closer, Taiwan Television did not choose to form an alliance with TVB, another TV station in Hong Kong, but also took the initiative to strengthen cooperation with ATV in the name of communication.
ATV is qualified to curry favor with both ends because its behind-the-scenes boss is the world's richest man with a global reputation, which makes the Taiwan side have to have some scruples. But if TVB dares to cooperate with the mainland so blatantly, then Taiwan's cultural and propaganda department will turn around and completely ban Shaw Brothers' films in Taiwan.
And the dust has settled on Hong Kong's return to the motherland, and a shrewd figure like Uncle Shao will naturally not offend the mainland. On the contrary, this "Uncle Saving" has begun to build various "Yifu Buildings" in schools across the country. Therefore, TVB's strategy has always been to remain neutral, and neither side of the Taiwan Strait will be offended.
ATV is naturally not really ready to be a "Hong Kong Beijing-Beijing TV station", so since Taiwan TV has taken the initiative to lower its profile to come to the door-to-door exchange, ATV is naturally very welcome. In addition to technical exchanges such as program production and broadcasting, ATV and Taiwan Television have also reached a package of cooperation agreements in TV drama procurement and co-production.
For example, in order to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War next year, the two TV stations decided to jointly produce a 40-episode documentary, comprehensively reviewing the beacon years when the whole people were united and went to the national disaster together!
Although the cooperation between ATV and Taiwan Television is a harmonious staggering. But Li Xuan is not a person who can handle it at will. On October 16, a short message was suddenly broadcast in ATV News. Mr. Jiangnan, a famous Chinese-American writer in the United States, was shot dead by gangsters outside his house.
And the next day's news tracking. Mr. Jiangnan's wife was interviewed by an ATV reporter with tears in her eyes. She insisted that her husband's death was not an ordinary murder case, but a long-planned political assassination! At that time, the camera camera swept over to a book next to her, and the title of this book was "The Biography of Jiang Jingguo"!
As soon as this interview was broadcast on ATV's evening news, it immediately attracted a lot of attention in Hong Kong society. "The Biography of Jiang Jingguo" has just been listed in Hong Kong not long ago, and there is no shortage of content in the book that reveals the various secrets of Xiao Jiang.
And there is one person who quickly can't sit still, he is Yang Jianping, the president of the Chinese Travel Service in Hong Kong. Britain was one of the first countries in the world to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, which means that Britain broke off diplomatic relations with the Taiwan-Taiwan authorities early.
In order to deal with issues such as visas for Hong Kong and Taiwan residents, the Taiwan-Gulf authorities have set up a Chung Hwa Travel Service in Hong Kong. Later, after the United States severed diplomatic relations with the Taiwan-Gulf authorities. More than a dozen consulates of the Republic of China in the United States were also changed to Chunghwa Travel Service overnight.
The responsibilities of the president of the Hong Kong Chinese Hostel are actually similar to those of the president of the Hong Kong Singapore Chinese Branch. Yang Jianping saw ATV's evening news, which seemed to be alluding to the death of writer Jiang Nan, which was related to his writing of "The Biography of Jiang Jingguo". Yang Jianping immediately lodged a solemn protest to ATV, and at the same time hoped to visit Li's house as soon as possible!
"President Yang, although I am the controlling shareholder of ATV Media, Asia Satellite TV, as one of the most important media organizations in Hong Kong, should enjoy independent news gathering and editing rights. So I'm generally reluctant to intervene in TV coverage!
Of course, your comments are also very pertinent, and TV stations play an important role in guiding public opinion, and they should make sure that the news is truthful and well-founded. I personally do not believe that the murder of Mr. Jiang Nan in San Francisco has anything to do with the Taiwan side!
If you really don't have this kind of tolerance, then Mr. Tang Ren, who made up the book "Jinling Spring Dream". How can I still live in Hong Kong well!I'll say hello to ATV later!" Li Xuan said with a smile to the president of the Chinese Hostel in Hong Kong, who was sitting next to him.
"Jinling Spring Dream" is a long novel written by Hong Kong writer Mr. Tang Ren in the 50s, which is part of the eight-episode, 2.3 million words. The novel uses a spicy pen to criticize Lao Jiang from birth to rise before retreating to Taiwan. and then to the entire first half of his life in the rout.
There are many fabricated plots in this novel that deliberately scandalize Lao Chiang, but even in the fifties and sixties when the struggle in the Taiwan Strait was more sinister. When Mr. Tang lived in Hong Kong, he was not assassinated by Taiwanese agents because of this!
Li Xuan, as a person who has come over, naturally knows that this Jiangnan case, which directly changed the subsequent political trend of Taiwan and the Gulf, actually has nothing to do with Xiao Jiang himself. But Jiang Nan was indeed killed by the order of his intelligence chief, and as a result, Xiao Jiang was pitted very badly by his subordinates, and in the end, even the only son who could inherit his mantle, his political future was directly ruined.
The 1984 Jiangnan-Nan case was an important turning point in Taiwanese society, and soon after the incident subsided, Chiang Jr. revealed for the first time in an interview with Time magazine that he had no intention of passing on the presidency to his son. Later, Taiwan quickly lifted martial law and entered a new era.
Now Jiang Nan has just died in San Francisco, the FBI in the United States has not yet intervened in the investigation, and the leader of the Lianzhu Gang who carried out the assassination plan has not yet been arrested. However, the sudden intervention of Asia Satellite TV still makes the Taiwan side feel a headache and vigilance.
Because Li Xuan does not have only one Asian satellite TV in his hands, if NBC TV in the United States also reports intensively on the Jiangnan assassination case, it will inevitably cause a lot of pressure on Washington, so Yang Jianping ran to Li's house to extinguish the fire as soon as possible!
The world of the eighties is no longer the era of the White Terror of forty or fifty years ago. The use of assassination is definitely the most stupid option, and even more stupid is to send a gang leader to use such a drastic method as shooting.
During a visit to Washington in 1970, Chiang was assassinated with a pistol by a Taiwanese student studying in the United States. He was very lucky to escape at the time, but later took the initiative to ask Washington to pardon the student who assassinated him.
As a scheming politician, Xiao Jiang can tolerate the assassins who shoot and assassinate him, let alone a biographer. But the spy boss below him apparently slapped the horse's ass on the horse's leg, which led to a big earthquake!
Jiang Nanke is a Chinese with American nationality, and this is also doomed to the fact that the US authorities will not be able to stop doing so, but will instead take this opportunity to further hammer the Taiwan-Gulf authorities. So this case will definitely get bigger and bigger in the future, but Li Xuan doesn't need to let ATV detonate this powder keg.
The purpose of asking ATV to report the news was to put pressure on Taiwan and show that he was not without the power to resist. And since the president of the China Hostel, President Yang, has come to the door in person, Li Xuan also pushed the boat and asked ATV to press the tracking report on this incident.
Soon, news came from Taiwan that the agreement of Dongfang Semiconductor to take a stake in UMC was successfully reached! However, a wave of non-settlement has not been settled, and another wave has risen! The Dongfang Group's enterprise in Taiwan has problems again, this time it is RCA Company! (To be continued......