Who is lying about what?

Of course, Wu isn't a liar. But lawmakers of the opposition party say he is, because they believe he didn't tell the truth about his whirlwind one-day visit to Hong Kong on August 5.

Now, let's find out what exactly happened in the former British colony on that day, barely 24 hours after President Ma Ying-jeou had told Wu to form a new Cabinet.

Wu said at first he had been invited by Leung Chun-ying, convener of the Hong Kong Executive Council, to pay the long-delayed visit. It was a fact-finding visit, Wu claimed. Well, they met in a club where they exchanged landslide control and ecological rehabilitation experience. Leung, a well-known architect, had a government agency set up to take exclusive charge of landslide prevention. The information Wu obtained is of use to the environmental rehabilitation his Cabinet has to undertake in the wake of Typhoon Morakot.

The visit, however, was not well-timed. Wu should have made the visit earlier. He didn't, and he could not after he became premier. That's why he went, along with his family who wanted to visit Hong Kong.

Opposition party leaders accused Wu of trying to get Beijing's approval of the Cabinet he was going to head. One lawmaker, Chiu Yi-ying, called Wu “Yih the Liar,” because the premier later reversed himself and admitted he asked for the meeting with Leung.

When the Apple Daily printed a picture of Wu meeting Guo Yen, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Council, at a posh restaurant in Hong Kong yesterday, she demanded the premier resign for telling a fib. Chao Tien-lin, DPP spokesman, said the opposition party does not rule out the possibility of compelling Wu to bow out before he makes his first policy speech on the floor of the nation's highest legislative organ this morning.

Wu did not deny he met with Guo. But he said he didn't know Guo was a member of the consultative council in Beijing, part of the government of the People's Republic.

DPP leaders said they smelt a rat about the Wu-Guo meeting. Yeh Yi-tsin, Chiu's colleague, said Guo has “a close connection” with a former Chinese Communist spy chief. What charges are Yeh's?

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