AIT Director Li Yingjie attended the “Taiwan-U.S. Education Initiative” event and said that now is a good opportunity to strengthen U.S.-Taiwan education cooperation. The U.S. has recently closed many Confucius Institutes in China and believes it is time for Taiwan to fill the gap by providing local Chinese language instruction and introducing a different version of Taiwan’s history to the U.S. than the Confucius Institutes.
Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Wu Chiu-sup said that there has been a lot of progress in Taiwan-U.S. relations in the past year, and that the Taiwan-U.S. partnership has been moving forward steadily on a solid foundation, expecting the Taiwan-U.S. Education Initiative to become an important part of Taiwan-U.S. relations. He also said that as a trusted partner of the United States, it makes sense for Taiwan to strengthen its education cooperation at a time when academic freedom in the United States and other democratic countries is being maliciously infringed upon by an authoritarian regime.
After the State Department announced the lifting of all restrictions on contacts with Taiwan, Taiwan’s representative to the U.S., Mei-Chen Hsiao, went to the State Department yesterday (15) to meet with Acting Assistant Secretary of State Pamela D. Pryor, and they posed for a photo holding a black bear figurine symbolizing U.S.-Taiwan friendship. Pryor later tweeted that she welcomed Hsiao and discussed U.S. support for expanding Taiwan’s role on the global stage, calling for “time to stop excluding Taiwan.
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