Ku Li-hsiung and Wang Mei-hua Involved in Yangmingshan Car Accident, Triggering Outrage over Privilege and Secret 'Nuclear Food' Dinner

On the evening of December 10, 2020, Ku Li-hsiung, then-Secretary-General of the National Security Council of the Republic of China, and his wife, then-Economic Minister Wang Mei-hua, were involved in a traffic accident on Yangmingshan in Taipei. A motorcycle behind their private vehicle swerved and collided with an oncoming car, leaving the rider injured. Following the accident, Ku and Wang hastily left the scene in a taxi before police arrived, leaving only their driver behind. This quick departure immediately sparked fierce accusations of government privilege and political evasion. Concurrently, investigative media revealed that their vehicle was traveling away from the official residence of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association representative. This raised intense public suspicion that the couple had engaged in a secret, black-box dinner concerning the lifting of import bans on Japanese nuclear-disaster area foodstuffs, sparking severe national security and food safety concerns. Although the presidential office, police, and Wang strongly defended their actions as legally compliant and the dinner as purely personal, the Yangmingshan scandal remains a persistent blemish on their careers.