Lin Jialong: Taiwan must be more actively involved in risk management in the international community
After the Trump-Xi meeting, the outside world focused on the impact on Taiwan's future. Vice President Hsiao Meiqin, who once served as the representative to the United States, said yesterday that the United States and China are competing fiercely in the fields of diplomacy, military, science and technology, and artificial intelligence. The United States, Japan, South Korea and other countries have recently reiterated their emphasis on peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, support maintaining the status quo, and oppose changing the status quo by force or coercion. Taiwan and the United States have long-term common and significant interests.
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Xiao: Taiwan and the United States share common and major interests
When attending the founding meeting of the New Resident Support Association of Democratic Progressive Party Changhua County Mayor candidate Chen Suyue yesterday, Xiao Meiqin pointed out that in recent years, the international community has paid more and more attention to Taiwan, not only caring about the democratic freedoms cherished by Taiwan, but also paying attention to the economic achievements created by the joint efforts of Taiwanese people, as well as Taiwan's role in global supply chains and technological development.
Foreign Minister Lin Jialong also emphasized yesterday that in the face of China's continued expansion and the security, economic and institutional risks it brings, Taiwan needs and is maintaining close diplomatic cooperation with countries with similar ideals to jointly reduce the risk of miscalculation and conflict and strengthen regional peace and resilience. Lin said that when the international community jointly thinks about how to manage China risks, Taiwan should not be seen as a problem that needs to be dealt with, but as a partner in jointly maintaining peace, resilience and prosperity.
Lin: The international community should think about the one-Taiwan policy
Lin Jialong said that before the Trump-Xi meeting, our government had maintained good communication with the Trump administration and all walks of life in the United States. After the Trump-Xi meeting, U.S. Ambassador to China Pang Dewei also said in an interview that "the U.S. policy toward Taiwan has not changed." This shows that continuous and stable communication and mutual trust between Taiwan and its major partners are an important part of maintaining stability in the Taiwan Strait.
In response to this Trump-Xi meeting, Lin said that the United States and China continue to negotiate on economic and trade, technology and security issues. It can be seen that even if the United States and China seek "constructive strategic stability" in their relations, structural competition and differences between them still exist. He believes that the Sichuan-Xi meeting itself is a kind of risk management. The United States and China need to maintain dialogue to avoid rising miscalculations. "Managing risks while interacting" has become an important issue for the current international community in the face of China's rise.
Lin Jialong said that whenever high-level interactions between the United States and China receive attention, there will also be voices within Taiwan that are "suspicious of the United States" or "abandon Taiwan." However, the international community's management of China's risks does not mean a comprehensive confrontation with China; similarly, the development of China policies by various countries does not mean that they must sacrifice their relations with Taiwan. In fact, China policy and Taiwan policy can go hand in hand in practice. For Taiwan, this also means that we must participate more actively in risk management in the international community.
Lin also mentioned that as Pei Lunde, CEO of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China Policy (IPAC), recently called, the international community can retain the existing "One China Policy", but at the same time it also needs to think about a "One-Taiwan Policy" that more clearly responds to the reality of Taiwan's 23 million people participating in the international community.
