【外交部 Dr. Wu 中興大學開課啦👨🏫】
#外交部 吳部長3月26日應 國立中興大學法政學院邀請,參與10周年系列演講「法政論壇」,以 #台美關係與外交工作經驗談 為題,向校內師生演講。
吳部長金句不斷,就讓我們一同來看看吧❗️
📗外交策略:廣交朋友
吳部長提到,台灣外交的挑戰,尤其是軍事威脅、外交空間的壓縮、國內穩定安全的考量,最大的挑戰還是來自對岸,因此外交工作最重要的目標,就是結交更多的好朋友,透過結合 #友邦 及 #理念相近 的國家,與 #美國🇺🇸 #日本🇯🇵 #歐盟🇪🇺 #澳洲🇦🇺 #紐西蘭🇳🇿,以及 #加拿大🇨🇦等國家,積極努力,開拓國家間信賴關係。
📗互信基礎,得來不易
經過4-5年的努力,可以看到我國與美國、歐洲國家關係有著長足的進展,但是這樣的互信基礎,得來不易,也因為如此,我們與國際政要高層的對話,不應拿來媒體炒作,要真正談出成果時,讓民眾知道外交部真的讚👊。
📗台美合作,日益密切
台灣與美國近年來透過 #台美教育合作倡議 建立的華語教育的溝通平台,所以我們與哈佛大學簽約,並且邀請政界人士來台學習華語,另外透過 #台美經濟繁榮夥伴對話 深化經濟合作關係,以及 #全球合作暨訓練架構 (GCTF)使得台灣成為國際間 #非傳統安全 重要的核心。
📗爭取瞭解,獲得支持
沒有一個國家有義務支持台灣,我們必須主動積極去說服國際社會,台灣是可以信任的好夥伴,以及台灣對國際社會是正面的貢獻。並且要讓國際社會瞭解台灣身處對抗 #威權主義 擴張的第一線,要是失去台灣,就是失去重要的民主堡壘。
📌美國拜登總統上任之前,美國這樣稱呼我們
🔸Democratic success story 民主成功的故事
🔸A reliable partner 一個可信賴的夥伴
🔸A force for good in the world 世界良善的力量
📌拜登政府上任後,美國這樣形容我們
🔸A leading democracy 民主的領頭羊
🔸A critical economic and security partner 關鍵經濟和安全夥伴
除了外交部的努力,也需要台灣社會共同認知,才有今天的成果,也鼓勵參與演講的同學們,未來加入外交部的行列!
#部長說跟外館時差關係外交部常常加班
#加班啦哪次不加班
MOFA’s Dr Joseph Wu was in session yesterday, giving a talk on his experiences of diplomatic efforts in the #Taiwan-#US relationship on invitation from National Chung Hsing University in a series of lectures held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the university’s College of Law and Politics. We’ve summarized some of the highlights for you below!
🔹Diplomatic Strategies: Make a lot of friends.
The biggest challenges for Taiwan in its diplomacy, according to Minister Wu, are those brought by the cross-strait issue, specifically the military threat to Taiwan, the attempt to shut down Taiwan’s opportunities for international diplomacy, and domestic security concerns. For this reason, one of the biggest objectives of Taiwan’s diplomatic strategy has been to make a broad range of good friends, building trust with diplomatic allies and like-minded countries and regions, such as the US, Japan, the EU, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
🔹Building hard-won trust:
After 4-5 years of effort, we’ve seen significant progress in our relationship with the US and European countries, but this foundation of trust was hard won, and because of this, our discussions with top-ranking foreign leaders should not be taken as media fodder so that real results can be derived from these discussions. That way, the public can be reassured that the ministry is doing its job well.
🔹Ever-closer ties in Taiwan-US cooperation:
Through the Taiwan-US Education Initiative we’ve established a communication mechanism for Mandarin education programs, signed an agreement with Harvard University, and invited many figures from the political world to study Mandarin in Taiwan. Through the Taiwan-US Economic Prosperity Partnership Dialogue, we’ve also strengthened our economic cooperation, and the Global Cooperation and Training Framework has transformed Taiwan into a hub for the management of non-traditional security issues.
🔹Seeking understanding and gathering support:
No country has a duty to help Taiwan, so we must be proactive in convincing the international community that Taiwan is a trustworthy partner and that it has a positive contribution to make within this international community.
We must also get the international community to understand that Taiwan is on the front line in the fight against authoritarian expansionism, and that if Taiwan is lost, an important #BeaconOfDemocracy is lost with it.
Before US President Joe Biden took office, the US referred to Taiwan as a “democratic success story”, “a reliable partner” and “a force for good in the world.”
Since President Biden took office, the US has referred to Taiwan as “a leading democracy” and “a critical economic and security partner.”
In closing, Minister Wu stated that the successes achieved are not solely a result of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ efforts, but also of a common belief held by society in Taiwan, and he encouraged the students at the talk to join the ministry’s ranks in the future.
#RealFriends #RealProgress
new zealand minister of foreign affairs 在 李怡 Facebook 的最佳解答
The Fate of Authoritarian System (Lee Yee)
As the Legislative Council (LegCo) election date is getting closer, the Hong Kong pro-CCP government pondered what tactic to use – the DQ (disqualifying candidates) tactic or the postponement tactic? Then came the latest rumor: the election will be postponed for a year due to the epidemic.
Only the mentally-challenged would believe that excuse.
Although many pan-democratic camp (pan-dems) candidates cannot make up their minds on which direction to go within their response to the confirmation letter, the government is still wary of the DQ tactic: if it excavates what the candidates did or said in the past and uses that to mass DQ them, people would be appalled by it and reaction from the international side would be strong; if it accepts their writings in the confirmation letter and let them through the gate, then it is extremely likely the pan-dems would win the election. So DQ wouldn’t work, postponement it is then.
The postponement tactic is actually directly in breach of the Basic Law Article 69 which sets the term of office for four years. Of course, when such unrefined law like the National Security Law (NSL), which blatantly violates the Basic Law, can be so speedily passed and immediately implemented, then the Basic Law has long become garbage in the eye of the CCP, who can now stamp and approve all the dirty deeds with the National People's Congress (NPC) seal and fool itself that everything is legal.
But this could be another miscalculated blunder in the making. Postponing the election for a year would actually attract more criticism from the international society than the DQ tactic, because although DQ is against human rights, it is not unlawful to do so; however, the postponement has obviously violated the constitution. Maintaining the regulations of a constitutional system is the most basic rule a civilized government required to follow. The western politicians are the most stubborn about this.
Despite the news of last year’s anti-ELAB movement being closely followed worldwide, apart from the US, the western countries did not react too much on the parliamentary levels; hiding Wuhan virus from everyone which led to a global pandemic had also not caused any actions except Trump who flared up plenty of times, and some minor mutterings from some western countries with no real action; The noise surrounding the China-US trade war escalated, but many western countries were reluctant to get involved or ban Huawei as they wanted to maintain a relationship with China. But then when Hong Kong NSL was launched, and all hell broke loose. Within a month, the US stepped up its anti-China action and gradually revealed its sanctioning measurements. The Five Eyes and even the pro-China EU have all halted their extradition treaty with Hong Kong. The UK became the first country that banned Huawei.
Halting the extradition treaty is due to the NSL claims that criminals can be sent to China to go on trial, which was a different scenario when the treaty was signed. The NSL has indicated that Hong Kong’s judicial system is no longer independent from China. Last year, 65% of China’s foreign investment was via Hong Kong. Foreign investors chose Hong Kong as a base because they believed Hong Kong had judicial independence. However, with the implementation of NSL, it is no longer the case.
Right now, there are increased actions against the NSL from western countries daily and this sanctioning circle is growing. China has to utter gibberish like “angry”, “sternly refute” to different countries every day.
The CCP and Hong Kong pro-CCP camp thought postponing LegCo election is just a trivial matter, but Pompeo said he would pay extra attention to Hong Kong’s LegCo election in September; UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has also told Wang Yi, China’s Foreign Minister, the same in a call.
Yan Zeya, a Taiwanese author said yesterday on Facebook, “I hope Taiwan and Hong Kong would break this misconception, that the left-wing in the West are pro-China, and the right-wing are anti-China. Take the New Zealand Prime Minister as an example. She is from the Labor Party, left-wing, but not pro-China. How the left and right are divided in a country depends on internal affairs and its economy, but has nothing to do with foreign policies. Its attitude towards another country is not distinguished by left or right, but hawk and dove. Some country’s hawks ally with the right, some with the left, some do not ally with any side. Furthermore, if there are more than one hostile countries, then the same country could be a hawk to country A, and a dove to country B.
NZ Prime Minister Ardern clearly indicated during last week’s China Business Summit, that the NZ government differ from China on some issues, including Hong Kong NSL, the situation of Uyghurs in Xinjiang and Taiwan joining the WHO. She emphasized, that these subjects are extremely important to the Kiwis (New Zealand people).
Lately, the China policies of the US and western countries are becoming more aligned – they are all becoming the eagle. The catalyst of this drastic change is indeed Hong Kong NSL; and the postponement of the LegCo election would only exacerbate the anti-China and anti-Hong Kong actions.
Once a rule is broken, one would keep breaking it; to use a lie to cover a lie, it must be a bigger lie; to fix the loophole by breaking rules, the hole would only get bigger; to use mistake to mend another mistake would only create a bigger mistake. And this, is the fate of the authoritarian system.