#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/…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Think about those titles. Think about that mandate. This is shameful.
taipeitimes.com/News/front/a…
In the face of the crisis, the people of Taiwan have chosen to respect each other’s freedom and their own lives, and to put strong pressure on the government to manage and control public health.