00:00EU-Taiwan relations have been developing very quickly on the backdrop of successive global
00:06crises that are pushing the relationship forward.
00:09Why 2020?
00:10The key reason there is that towards that period in 2019, essentially already, we've
00:17seen Europe waking up from the sort of naive views of China as a beneficial economic partner.
00:25But by that time there was expectations fatigue setting in because none of those promises
00:31were really materializing.
00:33There's been a really very sharp uptake on the number of visits happening between Europe
00:39and Taiwan.
00:40What's crucial is that they are happening both ways.
00:44It's not just Taiwanese officials traveling to Europe, Europeans are also increasingly
00:49traveling to Taiwan.
00:51This shows that the relationship is maturing, that both sides have an interest in developing
00:57various forms of cooperation.
00:59The relationship has been really going from informality towards formality, as well as from
01:05being covered into happening very openly.
01:08There was a big milestone this year that Taiwanese Vice President Xiaobi Kim was traveling to Europe,
01:15where she was speaking on the floor of the European Parliament.
01:18It was not an official agenda of the Parliament because it was a summit of the IPAC, the Inter-Parliamentary
01:24Alliance on China.
01:25But nevertheless, it is still a big development for Taiwan because five years ago, I cannot
01:30imagine that a high-ranking, sitting Taiwanese official would be allowed to speak in whatever
01:36capacity on the floor of a European institution.
01:39affiliated with an international communityいやすれば an international community-based
01:54했습니다.
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