方恩格快评》国民党的英文网站得加油了

国民党总统参选人侯友宜计划于9月访问华府，并会晤美国政府官员和智库学者，但国民党自2020年7月以来就从未更新其英文网站。（中时资料照）

国民党总统参选人侯友宜 计划于9月访问华府，并会晤美国政府官员和智库学者。其目的在于让美国政府官员和这些美国「专家们」更深入理解侯友宜及其立场。当然，美国人最关心的议题是他对两岸关系的看法。

话虽如此，国民党自2020年7月以来就从未更新其英文网站。相比之下，民主进步党的总统参选人、副总统赖清德，最近则是与外媒有许多互动。

国民党是不敢提供最新的英文消息吗？还是因为他们缺乏英语人才？

实际上，国民党党中央有许多官员曾在美国取得博士学位，并且/或者在国民党执政时担任过国安外交相关职位。换句话说，这些人以自己的英语能力为荣。

笔者多次表示，总统候选人无需透过访问华府来争取美国的认同。侯友宜的竞选团队可以不理会我的建议，但若他们希望侯友宜的华府之行将以失败告终，其中一个方法就是确保国民党的网站上没有任何与总统候选人相关的英文资讯，并且该英文网站甚至从2020年以来就没有半点更新。

Chinese Nationalist Party (or Kuomintang, KMT) presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih plans to visit Washington DC in September and meet with US government officials and "think tank" scholars. The purpose is to help US government officials and these American "experts" to better understand Hou and his positions. Of course, the one issue that the Americans want to understand from Hou is his views on China-Taiwan relations.

The Chinese Nationalist Party has not updated its English website since July 2020. By contrast, Vice President William Lai, the presidential candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, recently had an event with foreign media.

Does the Chinese Nationalist Party fear providing updated English language information? Does it lack English speakers?

Actually, the Chinese Nationalist Party headquarters has many officials who have PhDs from the United States and/or served in foreign policy positions when it was in power. These people pride themselves on their English skills.

This author has said many times that Taiwan's political party officials and presidential candidates do not need to visit Washington DC to seek Uncle Sam's approval. Hou's campaign team can ignore my advice but if they want to ensure that Hou's visit to Washington DC will be a failure, one way to do so is to not have any English language information on the Chinese Nationalist Party's website about the party's presidential candidate, and for the website to not be even be updated since 2020.

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