Foreign Minister Lin Jialong was invited to deliver a keynote speech at the annual symposium of the Global Taiwan Institute (GTI), a Washington think tank, on the 7th, Eastern Time, via a pre-recorded video. Lin Jialong pointed out that this year coincides with the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States and the 30th anniversary of Taiwan's direct presidential election. Looking to the future, he hopes that Taiwan and the United States will further transform from "stakeholders" to "shareholders" and work together to establish a closer symbiotic partnership.
Lin Jialong said that the industrial advantages of Taiwan and the United States are highly complementary. The United States leads the world in cutting-edge technologies such as innovation, capital, and artificial intelligence (AI); Taiwan has world-class capabilities in advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, and supply chain integration. For example, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang used the metaphor of the AI industry as a "five-layer cake." From energy, chips, infrastructure, models to applications, Taiwan provides key support for the development of AI in the United States at all levels, fully reflecting the symbiotic relationship between Taiwan and the U.S. industry.
Lin Jialong emphasized that the current focus of global economic and trade has shifted from traditional cost and efficiency to security, resilience and trust. In the past year, Taiwan and the United States have made significant progress in signing the Reciprocal Trade Agreement (ART), holding the sixth Economic Prosperity Partnership Dialogue (EPPD), and participating in the Pax Silica Declaration. Taiwan is working hard to transform relevant investment cooperation into industrial clusters and substantial results. He recently went to Arizona to attend the unveiling ceremony of my country's office in Phoenix, which is a concrete action to implement "Wherever Taiwanese businessmen go, the Taiwanese team will support them."
Lin Jialong explained that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will continue to promote comprehensive diplomacy and implement it through the "three-chain strategy", of which economic diplomacy is a key link. It will integrate Taiwan's overall advantages in diplomacy, economy, trade, and supply chains to share values and deepen relations with alliance partners to create a prospect of mutual benefit and common prosperity. Based on this concept, the Rongbang Project hopes to establish long-term cooperative relationships with partners that combine the four major elements of technology, talent, capital, and market, invest in a better future with the United States and other partners, and further expand cooperation between Taiwan and the United States in third countries.
Lin Jialong concluded by saying that he hoped that the symbiotic partnership between Taiwan and the United States would continue to deepen and create more value for the Indo-Pacific region. Taiwan is not only "Taiwan in America" (Taiwan in America), but also "Taiwan with America" (Taiwan with America). It will continue to work with the United States and regional partners to jointly strengthen regional security, resilience and prosperity.
The Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) is the first think tank in Washington with Taiwan as its core research theme, providing an important platform for academic and policy exchanges between Taiwan and the United States. This year's annual meeting is themed "Looking Towards 2027: U.S.-Taiwan Relations Amid Rising Tensions in Asia" and explores the prospects for cooperation between Taiwan and the United States in areas such as Asian geopolitics, trade and technology, national defense and defense resilience.
