They cannot talk about it. The main thing I’m trying to work with, is to make sure that we can talk about ideas in the public service, publicly, even when they’re just ideas, even when they’re just drafts, even if they carry no decision. In Taiwan, we have a saying of losing face. You lose face if you admit your initial idea is wrong. I’m the minister of losing face. [laughs]

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