台灣 駐wto大使的八卦，Yahoo名人娛樂都在討論

台美TIFA明天6/30登場
蕭美琴大使：為雙邊經貿合作奠定重要基礎

睽違5年，第11屆台美TIFA將在明天展開，駐美大使蕭美琴 Bi-khim Hsiao 說，這場對話將為未來雙邊經貿合作向前邁進奠定重要的基礎，提升台美關係刻不容緩。

蕭美琴大使談話重點：

🔺全球經貿環境劇烈變動，台灣面臨的課題，包括：如何推動國內產業轉型，以全球布局角度分散風險，同時提升與主要貿易夥伴的關係。

🔺台美TIFA對話，展現台灣與國際接軌的決心。市場開放各有得失，但全球市場開放中獲益的價值，讓任何政黨都將與貿易夥伴簽屬貿易協定，視為重要工作。

🔺雙方有機會取得進展的合作領域包括：氣候變遷與綠色經濟、數位經濟、以及供應鏈韌性。

🔺美方主張透過WTO釋出疫苗智財權，對於台灣爭取美國疫苗製造技術、建構產能，台美有一致性，也可透過雙邊平台進一步凝聚共識。

我們期待，透過TIFA貿易對話，台美可以在貿易、產業、科技、投資等領域，深化雙邊合作。盼一步一步累積的善意和互信，成為未來洽簽雙邊貿易協定（BTA）的動能。

👉什麼是TIFA：t.ly/RqzU

【就在明天！TIFA復談 台灣在世界舞台的新里程】

第11屆台美貿易暨投資架構協定（TIFA）會議，將於30日以視訊方式舉行，將由美國在台協會 AIT處長酈英傑（Brent Christensen），與我國駐美代表蕭美琴 Bi-khim Hsiao為會議開場，行政院經貿談判辦公室副總談判代表楊珍妮，與美國貿易代表署（USTR）助理貿易代表麥卡廷（Terrence J. McCartin）分別擔任台美雙方的主談代表。

暌違五年的第一次，TIFA終於再次復談，特別又遇上了COVID-19的疫情，因此，此次會議格外具有意義。首先，台美要共同合作解決疫情，故而疫苗與醫療物資的流通，會是首要重點。蕭美琴大使表示，為了擴增全球COVID-19疫苗產能，USTR主張透過世界貿易組織（WTO）釋出疫苗智慧財產權，而台灣希望爭取美國疫苗製造技術、建構產能以共同抗疫，「在目標上台美有其一致性」，或可透過雙邊平台凝聚共識。蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen總統也表示，這次TIFA會談有一項重要議程，就是簡化醫療物資進出口程序，這些實質合作對台灣現階段疫情控制將會帶來重要的助力，她已請談判團隊務必全力以赴。

再者，面對疫情後的全球經濟發展情勢，台灣要如何在這波全球產業重組的趨勢中，佔據戰略位置，也是相當重要。行政院經貿談判辦公室也已公布，台美雙方將就智慧財產權、數位貿易、藥品醫材、貿易便捷化、法規透明化、投資、供應鏈、非市場經濟、金融服務等議題展開對話，同時也會納入環保與勞工議題。

上述的這些，都在在證明了，台灣與美國，絕對是共享民主自由價值，最堅實的盟友。

明天，就是台灣大步邁向國際，在世界舞台上，以嶄新的姿態踏出第一步。

讓我們大聲向世界宣告，台美合作，共創未來！

#真朋友真進展
#TIFA

【台美日共同守護印太安全】
　　
美國、日本、台灣三國智庫共同主辦「2020台美日三邊印太安全對話」，包括蔡英文總統、美國前國務院助卿坎博(Kurt Campbell)、前國防部印太安全助理部長薛瑞福(Randall Schriver)、日本前駐美大使佐佐木賢一郎等重要人士都與會。
　　
我也參與三國國會議員的對談，與羅致政委員、陳以信委員、美國聯邦眾議員貝拉(Ami Bera)以及日本眾議員鈴木馨祐，交流2020後的印太及台海情勢與願景。
　　
結果準備厚厚一疊的英文講稿幾乎沒派上用場，講太HIGH不小心就脫稿演出....。無論如何還是提供原本的講稿跟大家參詳，一起來練習英文吧：
　　
　　　　
2020 Taiwan-US-Japan Trilateral Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue

Hello moderator, fellow panelists, I am Taiwan legislator Freddy Lim.

This year, due to the pandemic, we can only conduct this panel online. I’m still very glad to be invited to attend this event and exchange ideas with these great panelists. Here I want to share my views on today’s main topic: “Challenges and Opportunities in the Indo-Pacific Region and the Taiwan Strait in 2020 & Beyond”.

First I want to start with the conventional positioning of Taiwan under the established international order.

After WWII, the international order led by the allies dragged Taiwan into China’s civil war. Since then, Taiwan's been struggling with the “One China” dispute, unable to gain independence and world recognition like many other colonies.

Even though Taiwanese people have built an independent and democratic country after half a century of hard work, now we enjoy freedom and human rights, the international community still isolates Taiwan. One of the main reasons is obviously China.

The established international community viewed China as a huge economic opportunity, a partner that would eventually carry out political reforms and be integrated into modern international order. Under this conventional thinking, the international community is willing to help China ease and suppress many of its unpleasant problems, including the thorny "Democratic Taiwan."

This has reduced Taiwan to merely China’s “Taiwan Problem”. We’re even slandered as the “troublemaker” of the Taiwan Strait; As a result, the respect that Taiwan deserves continues to be shelved, and the active role we can play, the contributions we can make in the international community are also ignored.

However, this established international structure is now changing.

After decades of appeasement policy, and acquiring WTO membership in 2001, China’s various structural changes that the world anticipated have never taken place. On the contrary, China’s been using organized measures, such as bribing, infiltration, and hybrid-warfare, to undermine international norms. It’s worked hard to manipulate and control international organizations, in order to project its influence onto the world. These actions have been even more distinct after Xi Jinping became President of China in 2012.

Internationally, China implemented debt-trap diplomacy on many countries through the Belt and Road Initiative. It established Confucius Institutes around the world, which are basically intelligence operations in the name of culture. Chinese tech giant, Huawei also aids China’s international surveillance. Not to mention China’s relentless expansion in the South China Sea, building military bases, creating man-made islands. This year, it’s even more serious. We witnessed the long time Chinese infiltration into UN organizations. The favoritism towards China helped its cover-up, which led to the dysfunction of WHO, ultimately causing the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Domestically, the Chinese government not only failed to implement any political reforms, but it also created the “Social Credit” system with advanced technology, to surveil and control its own people; In addition, the Chinese government built the notorious “Reeducation Camps” - concentration camps in reality, in Tibet, Xingjian, where human rights conditions were already in a bad shape. Even the Hong Kong people, who were supposed to be protected by the promise of “One Country, Two Systems”, their freedom and human rights were completely destroyed by the Chinese government.

These compelling examples show that there is some serious fallacy in the conventional way of viewing China. All facts point to this: Taiwan is not the problem. China is the problem. China is the troublemaker of the Taiwan Strait. It’s the troublemaker of the Indo-Pacific region. It’s even the troublemaker of the entire world.

Under decades of collective misjudgement, China was allowed to become the most terrifying, largest digital authoritarian government in human history. It’s a new form of dictatorship. As a response, many countries have vastly changed their China policy in recent years, thus the change of international structure.

This brings me to my next point: Give Taiwan the status it deserves. Let us contribute to the international society.

In a new international structure, Taiwan shouldn’t be categorized as “China’s Taiwan Problem”. Instead, we should be one of the key countries for international cooperation, responding to the new type of dictatorship.

Taiwan has faced authoritarian China on the front line for decades. Many countries are now facing the problem of China's infiltration under its United Front programs. Taiwan started dealing with the same problems 10 to 20 years ago. We have gained a lot of experience to contribute to the international community.

Taking the COVID pandemic as an example, Taiwan has studied and analyzed the actual situation and the information provided by the Chinese government with a serious and high-vigilance attitude. Based on our experience and lessons learned from the China SARS epidemic in 2001, we decisively formed a series of epidemic preventive measures. We have handled the crisis with the principle of openness and transparency. Our people have been self-disciplined and willing to cooperate. All of this demonstrates the high level of democracy in Taiwan’s society.

After the domestic epidemic was brought under control, Taiwan has continued to share our epidemic prevention supplies and the experiences on forming epidemic prevention policies with the world.

Although Taiwan was suppressed, even excluded by China in various international organizations in the past, we’ve been doing our best to comply with the norms & regulations of international organizations. We always actively contribute every time we have the opportunity. What I want to say is, all of this proves Taiwan could be a reliable partner in the international community. We are capable of working with other countries to solve major problems. We deserve our seats and participation in international organizations.

Regarding the impact of U.S. change of administration.

Now the U. S. presidential election is over and the administration is currently under transition. Many countries, including Taiwan, are concerned about whether the new U.S. government will change its course on foreign policy, especially its China policy. However, the "Rebalance (of Asia-Pacific Region)" proposed by the Obama administration in 2011, was in fact already a strategic adjustment in response to the rise of China and possible subsequent expansion.

The Trump administration further proposed the Indo-Pacific strategy in 2017 to promote and uphold international law and regulations, aiming to ensure every country has the liberty to be free from oppression and coercion. I believe that both parties in the U.S. understand the root cause of the Indo-Pacific regional problem comes from the Chinese government. Even for the Biden administration, it will have to provide practical responses. Facing the new structure, they can’t just go back to the traditional thinking of the last century.

As for Taiwan, the pro-Taiwan acts in the U.S., such as the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018, Taiwan Travel Act, Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement, were passed with strong consensus between the Republicans and the Democrats. I believe Taiwan could be a key partner to the international community and play an active role in the free world. This isn’t just the consensus of the two parties in the U.S., but will be the consensus of all democratic countries.

In a progressive aspect, the International community can benefit from a wider recognition of Taiwan.

In recent years, the performance of Taiwanese society in terms of epidemic prevention performance, human rights, gender equality, marriage equality, and open government are actually in line with many progressive ideas and visions. The ideas and visions that many democratic countries have long supported. Therefore, I’m quite optimistic that, after 2020, Taiwan can make even greater progress, on multiple levels and in broader aspects, contributing to the international community.

Finally, I want to emphasize again that to truly resolve regional problems, we need dynamic multilateral cooperation. But this must not be a return to the conventional thinking of the past century, which was "expecting" China to abide by the international order. The outdated thinking had been proved to be a failure. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a series of Chinese infiltration and aggression after its rise in recent years, which became one of the most difficult issues in the world. I believe after 2020, U.S., Japan, and Taiwan can establish a new model of international cooperation through deeper collaboration and communication. And hopefully, this model will maximize the security of the Indo-Pacific region and promote peace, stability and development in the region.

This concludes my speech, thank you all for listening.
Lastly, I’d like to express my gratitude to the moderators, my fellow panelists, and the organizers of this event.
I wish everyone peace and good health. Thank you.

▶經歷元旦風波，希望台美關係不要受影響。有關華府代表處、智庫今年度新聘僱的公關公司，基於監督之用，本席要求外交部提供公司清單以及其擬定工作計畫與目標、該公司獲聘客觀的衡量標準。
▶美國基於安全理由暫時關閉沙烏地阿拉伯大使館，我國在當地也有使館，雖然台灣國際威脅指數不比歐美日韓，還是請外交部務必注意國人安危。
部長：與駐外館人員、國人、台商、國際援助NGO團體等都有聯繫的機制。
▶就我國參與國際合作組織議題，除了目前已加入的WTO、APEC，近來外交部多著力於UNFCCC、ICAO，但本席認為外交部在尋求加入上述團體之餘也應考量其他領域包含人道救援的組織。台灣人的愛心是國際有目共睹的。UNOC、HA等、或聯合國周邊會議及活動，外交部也應試圖融入，達到OECD人道救援的標準，洗刷早期台灣援助的汙名。歐巴馬曾說台灣的國際參與在尊嚴與尊重的前提下發展，因此我們國際援助如何與與國際接軌便是重要課題，可惜本次書面報告並沒有看到外交部在此方面的企圖心。
部長：伊波拉防疫有與OCA，以及聯合國有一些聯繫，且與美方CDC Centeru也有具體合作。
▶有外國官員說我國提供的防疫裝備因不符國際規格所以部分被退貨，本席認為以台灣的醫療科技發展，台製裝備應是品質的，部長要不要回應這項傳言?
部長：沒有發生的事，我方日前還透過美方捐贈第二批裝備至拉丁美洲國家，共是十二萬五千美元PPE，所有設備都先與國際專家討論協商後才捐贈，外交部會提供資料給委員參考。
▶另外，本席也聽聞國際官員對我方表示在菲律賓海燕颱風發生時，我國海軍軍艦第一時間便送物資援救，國際雖肯定我方愛心，但我方援助範圍、項目卻不符當地需求，使得我方好意無法被輸送。因當時菲國最迫切需要的是基礎建設的修復、以及指揮系統的建置，而這些都剛好等同平時我國軍演練內容，因此本席認為我國應先做好跨部會跨機關的合作，國外援助才能對症下藥，國人愛心才不會被打折扣；此外也能凸顯我方國防實力，及國際合作的能耐。
▶加入TPP是朝野共同期待，在國內法規尚未調整前，國人希望有政府能更透明，事前與民眾充分溝通。外交部負責處理對外事務，應致力讓國際看得出我國積極作為，尤其是政府整合國內不同意見的決心，不要重蹈服貿黑箱作業覆轍。
目前政府從不就清單內容與國會議員溝通，有些項目在國內會引發爭議這是大家心照不宣的，期待溝通的機制建構。
部長：與經濟部協調配合。