Mm-hmm (affirmative), yeah, I think one of the main issues that the Participation Officers system is designed to solve is to make transparent the drafting stage conversations. Around the world, in the freedom of information acts around the world, there’s usually a clause—and Taiwan is no exception—that says the drafting stage conversation is not meant to be made public unless it serves the public purpose to do so. But each and every meeting that Participation Officers work on after the monthly meeting to select the two cases, or each and every meeting with me by interviews like this or with lobbyists or really any internal meeting that I’m the only chair, then all of these, actually, are made transparent even during the drafting stage.

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