Climate change is both an urgent threat & an opportunity to drive investments, bolster supply chains, create new jobs. #Taiwan🌍 has set an ambitious goal to generate 20 GW of electricity from solar power & 15.7 GW from wind energy. Let's seize the opportunity!
#ClimateSummit
@elyratner is the exactly right person to be @SecDef’s point man on the Indo-Pacific. We face huge challenges there and Ely has the strategic vision and implementation chops to put the US in the strongest position to address them. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
Climate change is a defining challenge of our time. We're absolutely committed to making sure that Taiwan is taking concrete steps to slash carbon pollution & turbocharge the development of renewable energy. Let's make Taiwan carbon neutral by 2050. #EarthDay#EarthDay2021#COP26
🇯🇵+🇺🇸🤝🇹🇼Japan & the United States are two of Taiwan's most important allies. To have the two countries' leaders explicitly affirm the importance Taiwan's security holds special significance for us. Thank you to President Biden, PM Suga & everyone who helped make this possible.
And we're not talking about any world leader, President Tsai is the 1st female President of Taiwan and a champion of progressive values who oversaw one of the best COVID-19 responses.
The Halifax International Security Forum wants to provide the John McCain award to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen. Apparently, PM Trudeau stands in the way.
If you may visit Taiwan before July, you can taste sweet fresh pineapples all you can eat. We do appreciate what you have contributed to the world as well as Taiwan. Please make this trip to Taiwan a reality!
Deputy Economic Minister CC Chen 陳正祺 and I discussed the importance of attracting & retaining talents in Taiwan's industries of strategic significance, such as smart machinery, biomedicine, IoT, renewable energy, defense industry, circular economy & advanced semiconductors.
Foreign Minister Wu and I exchanged views on the upcoming Biden🇺🇸-Suga🇯🇵 summit as well as how Taiwan can establish partnerships with like-minded countries to promote sustainable infrastructure development in third countries.
Taiwan just experienced the deadliest rail tragedy in decades, our emergency services, including the armed forces, are all supporting the search & research operations, can China for once show some sympathy?
One PLA Y-8 ASW entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ in the afternoon of Apr. 3, 2021. Please check our official website for more information: reurl.cc/v5456l
I met w/ Director General of the National Security Bureau Chen Ming-tong 陳明通 to discuss the situation in #HongKong🇭🇰. We also exchanged views on invoking Article 60 of the "Laws and Regulations Regarding Hong Kong & Macao Affairs" should the situation continues to deteriorate.
In our discussion, Foreign Minister Wu and I discussed the situation in Paraguay, the implications of the Quad summit. We also emphasised the importance of working with like-minded partners to manage shared foreign and security policy challenges.
While ordinary Chinese citizens are being jailed for using social media, foreign and domestic, to criticise Xi Jinping, China's diplomat is calling a foreign head of state a U.S. running dog.
China has sentenced more than 50 people to prison in the past three years for using Twitter and other foreign platforms blocked in the country, marking an escalation by the Communist Party to control narratives and strangle criticism on.wsj.com/2MyPcen
One year ago today, @WHO advised against wearing masks, saying that "there is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit."
How many lives could've been saved if WHO recommended the opposite?
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I met w/ Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng (邱國正) to discuss China's military activities near Taiwan as well as how we can prevent both air-to-air and air-to-ground collisions with better training and system upgrades.
March 28, 2021 - President Surangel Whipps, Jr. is off to Taipei, Taiwan to launch the Sterile Corridor. This four-day official trip will mark the epitome of the robust partnership between Palau and Taiwan. Stay with us for more from President Whipps’ official visit to Taiwan.
No one sacrifices more to protect our democracy than our extraordinary men and women in uniform. My thoughts and prayers are with the families of Captain Pan Ying-chun (潘穎諄) and First Lieutenant Lo Shang-hua (羅尚樺).