#ThinkTank-s, with their strong🌏global outlook and robust🤝networks on the ground, can, and indeed should, catalyze elite exchanges between #Taiwan and other like-minded powers like the #EU given their status as intermediaries and bridges b/w 🎓academia and 🏛️government.
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#TaiwanCanHelp: as a normative, like-minded partner with a strong #hightech industry, Taiwan can work with the EU on fostering technological #leadership and challenging geopolitical #hegemony.
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🇧🇬🤝🇹🇼 3 yrs ago, @NextGenTaiwan had the honor of hosting a delegation from #Bulgaria: @PassySolomon, BG's FM who negotiated&signed @NATO +🇪🇺#EU accession& @GerganaPassy, a Digital Champion. I fondly recall our fruitful convos in TPE about linkages b/w our 2 democracies
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Elite exchngs are an important tool, in convincing #Taiwan's partners that our #democracy conform to a set of shared values including free and fair elections, freedom of expression, and just and #FairTrade -> crucial for engaging a #NormativePower like the #EU
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🇪🇺🤝🇹🇼@NextGenTaiwan's Non-Rsdnt Fellow @zsuzsettte calls for a positive #EU policy on #Taiwan inspired me to ponder over action items for our #thinktank to contribute to this process. I believe that parallel actions ought to be undertaken: at elite and grassroots levels.
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Great article from our researcher @max_velocities on the merging of 5+2 with NSP to develop mutual partnerships. I think it’s important that we in Taiwan consider ways in which we can make our domestic and foreign policy goals align!
taiwannextgenfoundation.org/…