Yeah.

Although, the COVID-19 prevented me from actually going to Oxford to work with him, but we were able to actually work on this remotely and virtually. Very happy to see this come this far, but just to add to that.

Also, this project that Lucas just described, is a project that Lucas and I have been working on for almost two years when Lucas first invited me to be a visiting fellow at Oxford, at his department.

Just a complication. I’m physically in Harvard, but my heart is at Oxford.

Just…

Acer Cyber Security is a technology partner and we took a project together. Go on, Lucas.

Let me chime in here with…

Hold on a sec. Opened it. Let me see how…

I got it now.

Lucas, are you able to…? If you click on…Do you see the button on the screen that has a sharing function? No?

I haven’t got Lucas’.

I think on the app it does, but for some reason it took me through the web browser.

Yeah. Yeah. Very cold here.

Oh. David Eaves. Yeah.

While Lucas is fixing your slides, Audrey, I’ll have to find the chance to bring you to speak at the Harvard Kennedy School. I’ll be great to do something. You can just via video, via Zoom. I think a lot of people here are very interested to hear you speak. ...

You can email the slides to both of us. Maybe you can just go through it as you speak.

Maybe you can…

I don’t think I can share it either. Audrey, do you have access to a computer right now?

I’ll hand it over to Lucas. Lucas, maybe you can take it over from here.

As I’ve shared with you just now, Lucas and I have been developing a cyber study program based out of Oxford. We believe that this would be very useful and beneficial for Taiwan, given the current situation of Ukraine and Russia. Also, that now, you are in charge of the ...

Great. Let’s get started. I guess we are all running a very precious time constraint here. First of all, thank you for staying up late, Lucas. Audrey, I thank you for taking time out of your super busy schedule. I know this is completely not easy. I thank you. Thank ...

Can you hear me?

Lucas? Hi, Lucas.

...we sit here and we talk about where Taiwan stands in the world. We also want to talk about what value and contribution we can offer to the world. Let’s not forget, let’s not underestimate ourselves. These are the things that politicians use as a language, as tactics in the ...

Secondly, we must not forget, there are over estimated five million Taiwanese living and working in China. I think we have to really count what’s at stake here if the leaders use any type of anti China, pro China, or any sort of ideology as a way to wage election ...

One is our freedom, and second is democracy. Those should serve as the most important things to enter into that agreement. Insofar as what has been laid out, it’s just an idea. I don’t think at this point in time it is useful to discuss whether or not this could ...

This is an if question, and this is obviously a big if. First of all, I feel any leader in this country attempting to engage in dialog or negotiation with mainland China can now compromise the two things, two most important value of Taiwan.

I also mentioned on our high tech intellectual property, as well as our IP and importance in the global supply chain, as Chairman Gou also mentioned in a previous session, those are important things and substantial things that we want US to collaborate with us to continue to make Taiwan ...

Whether or not we want to push it to a law binding law, I think there’s a lot of complicated questions to answer. What I would like to see is more practical and substantial cooperation between US and Taiwan. For example, on the cybersecurity front, I feel that Taiwan can ...

We also have to understand that in the US, the administrative department upholds one China policy, which still governs on the international community as the highest principle of understanding Taiwan, China, and US dynamic. I feel the legislation and the congressional support that we are having are strong.

Whether or not it will be authorized and executed by the president is a question to be answered. I think in the current complexity in the US China trade war and various other interests involved, there’s a high level difficulty in enacting that going from a congressional consensus to a ...

I think with the current setup, all the laws, including TRA, and as well as the Taiwan Travel Act, Taiwan Assurance Act, and the National Defense Authority Act, those are served as congressional consensus, which means it’s the consensus of the people because Congress essentially meaning the people.

Also, we’ll see more and more activities being harnessed in the cyberspace to continue to influence Taiwan. To answer this question, as a lawmaker and legislator, I think one fair and responsible comment on this is we have to understand the balance of power in the US system where executive ...

This is a quite difficult question to answer. Also, I think it covers a wide variety of complexity as the situation we face today. Obviously going forward, we will see China continuing to push the envelope. We’ll see more and more crossing the centerline of the Taiwan’s trade, of their ...

Those are the things I feel if Taiwan were to, as Professor Chiu said, to harness this open opportunity that we should really focus on what matters among this what we call a triangular relationship, which is our strength in technology and intellectual property. Those are the things I feel ...

It is up to Taiwan to secure an important, crucial position in the triangular relationship by leveraging our high tech strength, especially knowing that our semiconductor, our global supply chain, as well as our AI, and as well as our intellectual property.

We must also bear in mind that what’s at stake here is the high tech and intellectual property that is essentially, it’s at the core of the trade war. A trade war will evolve to next stage going from goods to goods tariffs to the intellectual property and technology espionage, ...

One thing we do have to bear in mind that the current trade war might come to a temporary stop because of the diplomatic measures, as well as political arrangements.

With TRA celebrating the 40th anniversary, I feel this means solidarity and also cementing the strong relationship between Taiwan and China. We will continue to pursue a closer relationship and closer cooperation both officially and unofficially, as suggested by Minister Tang, and to foster a deeper relationship between the two ...

We also must be cautious in mind that any type of a strategic partnership or competition can change overnight with the change of status or the change of dynamic. Taiwan has to stay nimble and stay flexible in understanding the dynamics between the US, Taiwan, and China relationships.

Also, we’ve seen the introduction of the Taiwan Assurance Act, which is introduced by Senator Tom Cotton and also supported by Representative Cory Gardner. You can tell by a strong push by the US Congress to solidify the ever strong relationship between Taiwan and US.

Number one is National Defense Authority Act, which basically provides the legality for the US ships to dock in the ports of Taiwan, and also encourage the US high level officials to visit Taiwan and vice versa, for Taiwan high level officials to visit Washington.

We realize that there’s been a fundamental wake up call in terms of US really becoming a strategic competitor towards China. With that in mind, we realized that there’s been a several push within the Congress. There are three major important legislation that are being signed in Congress.

Thanks for having me. It’s great to be here. Obviously, TRA serves as a legal foundation that governs the basic principle of how US Taiwan regulated the state affairs. We can tell by the fundamental shift in the US strategy towards China, particularly after Trump took office in 2016, going ...