Foreign Minister Jaushieh Joseph Wu said Taiwan is working tirelessly to deepen its engagement with the rest of the world to defend its sovereignty, freedom and democracy.
Wu made the remarks during an interview with journalist Stefan Blommaert for a video released March 14 by VRT, the national public broadcaster for Belgium’s Flemish community.
According to Wu, members of the free world have stressed the importance of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait in the face of Chinese provocations and voiced their opposition to unilateral changes to the status quo .
China continues to block Taiwan’s global participation, Wu said, citing the country’s experience during the COVID-19 pandemic as evidence of Beijing’s obstruction. Taiwan was unable to quickly and efficiently share its disease-management expertise when the global crisis was at its peak, nor could it receive assistance from the World Health Organization, he added.
The minister said Beijing’s ambition does not stop at Taiwan but extends to the East and South China Seas and even Africa. Authoritarian expansionism threatens everyone, he said, adding that the best recourse is unity among all democratic countries. (SFC-E)
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