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「傅爾布萊特計畫」（Fulbright Program）是美國國務院在1946年依據參議員傅爾布萊特建議而設立的知名國際教育與文化交流計畫，提供獎助學金給美國學人到世界各地進行交流，也邀請世界各國學人來美交流。今天我來到一年一度的傅爾布萊特學人區域研究會議，許多國際上研究兩岸關係的學者特別來到臺灣，我也與他們分享我任內的成果。

首先在兩岸關係方面，我上任後堅持在中華民國憲法的架構下，維持臺海「不統、不獨、不武」的現狀，並在「九二共識、一中各表」的基礎上，推動兩岸和平發展。至今雙方已經簽訂了23項協議、主管兩岸事務首長有7次會晤並且互稱官銜，去年11月的「馬習會」，更是兩岸分治以來首次雙方最高領導人會面，兩岸已經從戰爭熱點轉變成和平大道，這是以前國共對峙時期完全無法想像的。

對美關係方面，美國國務院亞太副助卿董雲裳（Susan Thornton）肯定臺美關係處於最佳狀態，並表示我國是美國在東亞地區「至關重要的夥伴」（vital partner）。民國101年，我國成為美國免簽證計畫的一員，美國免簽證計畫的38個成員國家中，僅我國與美國無正式邦交關係。我也打趣地跟在場的美國在台協會（AIT）梅健華處長致意感謝AIT的「犧牲」，因為他們再也無法像以前一樣收取高額簽證費用了！

面對島嶼主權與海域爭議，我們相繼提出《東海和平倡議》及《南海和平倡議》，提倡「主權不能分割，資源可以共享」的概念，獲得多國肯定。102年我們與日本簽訂《臺日漁業協議》，解決40多年雙方的爭議，還給漁民安心的捕魚環境，美國與紐、澳、歐盟各國都相當支持，只有一方不甚快樂，那就是魚，因為協議簽訂後捕獲量大幅成長！

另外，有與會學者提出中國大陸經濟成長趨緩，與大陸有高度貿易往來的臺灣該如何因應的問題。我告訴他們，從民國89年至97年，臺灣出口至大陸（含香港）的金額占整體比例從24%成長到40%，我上任後，兩岸貿易金額增加16,127億美元，但這個比例不但沒有繼續增加，反而減少了（維持在38-39%），一直沒有超過40％。因為我國分散了出口國家，我們與其他各國的貿易額也在增加，所以我們與中國大陸的貿易額雖然持續增加，但比例卻下降了。雖然中國大陸的籃子特別大，但我們不把所有雞蛋放在同一個籃子裡，透過分散市場、降低可能的風險，使臺灣不會過度依賴大陸。

我執政的八年，持續努力推動「自由與繁榮臺灣」、「和平兩岸」、「友善國際」等政策目標，也都獲得相當豐碩的成果，我國從國際社會的負債成為寶貴的資產，也期待下一任政府能夠持續保持，為臺灣、東亞、乃至於世界的穩定與繁榮做出貢獻。

💕「愛台灣，我的選擇」系列第13發：金鐘獎節目主持人阮安祖 Andrew Ryan保存台灣故事和記憶的聲音

「我在美國西北大學學華語，當時就深深愛上這個語言。1994年夏天我跟著『哈佛世界教學計劃』到了上海，當時上海才剛開了第一家麥當勞。大學畢業後，我想繼續進修華語，但我也想到台灣看看，所以我在1996年申請了傅爾布萊特獎學金來台灣教英文，並研究台灣的英語教學環境。

我第一年在台灣時遇到一對荷蘭夫妻，他們問我打算在台灣待多久，我說一年，他們聽了哈哈大笑說，等你遇到那些也說只待一年的人就知道了。一轉眼我已經在台灣20年了。我在1999年1月開始在中央廣播電台工作。我曾經到北京教鞏俐一年英文，但她後來沒有演出那個角色，那是在她演出《藝妓回憶錄》之前。鞏俐和史蒂芬·史匹柏會面時我剛好也在北京，她後來去了好萊塢，我也回到台灣繼續在中央廣播電台工作。

在北京待過、聽過北京的聲音之後，我回到台灣，重新感受並聆聽台灣的聲音，那個時候，我第一次從心底油然而生，一種在我去中國前沒有的感受，我覺得：「我到家了」。於是我開始思考廣播電台的獨特性，以及如何做一個最適合電台的節目。電台不是電視節目，不是一本書，也不是一首詩或是視覺藝術，而是聲音，這就是我製作「Sound Postcards聲音明信片」廣播節目的起源。

台灣有些聲音還是跟以前一樣，有些聲音則因為人事更迭而消失，但還是有一些古早時期流傳下來充滿台灣故事和記憶的聲音，這些傳統的聲音是我真正想要保存下來的。人們總是拿著手機拍照，但是紀錄台灣的聲音對我來說是一種看世界的獨特方式。

談到台灣的廣播電台，我覺得最有趣的就是地方電台，就像計程車上會聽到有人唱卡拉OK那種。有一次我在屏東訪問摘鳳梨的果農時，他們也開著廣播聽，聽他們最喜歡的原住民音樂。像這種地方電台，我以為現在已經沒有了，沒想到還持續存在。我剛到台灣時去上了華語課，有一堂課叫做新選廣播劇，基本上是以警廣的廣播劇來進行教學。16年後我也製播了一個廣播劇，並獲得廣播金鐘獎。」

⭐️阮安祖是中央廣播電台節目主持人兼製作人，曾獲得3座廣播金鐘獎和1座電視金鐘獎。他的廣播與電視節目以中英雙語進行。

⭐️欣賞安祖的《聲音明信片》(現為《貼緊台灣的洋耳朵》): https://en.rti.org.tw/radio/programView/id/710

💕Why I chose Taiwan #13 – Award-winning host Andrew Ryan’s journey to discover the voices and memories of Taiwan

"I studied Chinese in college at Northwestern and fell in love with the language. Then I went to Shanghai the summer of 1994 with the Harvard WorldTeach program. The first McDonald’s had just opened in Shanghai that summer. When I graduated from college, I wanted to continue learning Chinese but I was interested in coming to see what Taiwan was like.

I came to Taiwan in 1996 as a Fulbright Fellow teaching and doing research on Taiwan’s English teaching environment. The first year I was here, I met a Dutch and American couple and they asked me, 'How long are you gonna be here in Taiwan?' and I said, 'A year.' and they both laughed and said, 'Wait until you meet all the other people who said they would just be here a year.' And here I am 20 years later.

I started working at RTI in January 1999. I actually went to Beijing for a year to teach English to 鞏俐 Gong Li, the Chinese movie star. It was for a role that she did not end up doing, just before Memoirs of a Geisha. I was actually in Beijing when she met with [Steven] Spielberg. When she went to Hollywood, I came back to Taiwan to return to my job at RTI.

After having been in Beijing and hearing the sounds of Beijing, then coming back to Taiwan and hearing Taiwan with fresh ears, for the first time, I felt like I was sharing a collective sound experience, a feeling I hadn’t had before I went to China. And I felt like: 'This is home.' I started thinking a lot about radio and how to do a show that’s perfectly suited to radio: it couldn’t be a tv show; it couldn’t be a book; it couldn’t be a piece of poetry or a work of visual art. That was what inspired me to start doing Sound Postcards.

Some sounds have been consistent in Taiwan. Some have disappeared because life has changed. But there are still traditional sounds from an older way of life that contain stories and memories of people in Taiwan. Those are the ones that I really want to preserve. People walk around taking pictures of things with the cameras on their phones. But the process of recording the sounds of Taiwan is really a special way of looking at the world.

And when I think about radio, for me the most exciting radio in Taiwan is the local radio. Like taxi driver radio where you can hear somebody singing karaoke. I interviewed these pineapple pickers in Pingtung. They had the radio on and they were listening to the music they love, indigenous music. Such local radio, I would have thought would be gone by now, but it’s still there. When I first came to Taiwan and I was taking Chinese, one of the classes I took was called New Radio Plays. It’s essentially like lessons built on actual radio plays that were played on Police Broadcasting Service. 16 years later I actually wrote a radio play that won a Golden Bell Award."

⭐️ Andrew Ryan is a host and producer with Radio Taiwan International. He is the recipient of three broadcasting Golden Bell Awards and one Television Golden Bell Award. He broadcasts and hosts television shows in both English and in Mandarin.

⭐️ Check out Andrew's Sound Postcards/ Ear to the Ground here: https://en.rti.org.tw/radio/programView/id/710

💕「愛台灣，我的選擇」系列第14發：環境科學家馬耐德發現台灣的生物多樣性與供應鏈的關鍵角色

「我來自美國加州聖地亞哥，畢業於美國創價大學，主修環境科學，當時主要從事淡水魚和基礎漁業的研究。隨後我到加州蒙特瑞國際研究學院攻讀碩士，研究海洋及沿海資源管理。當時其中一位教授就是來自台灣，她告訴我：『你應該去台灣看一看。』很多旅居海外的台灣人都會這樣鼓勵外國人拜訪台灣。

而我後來也的確到台灣進行了一個海峽兩岸的研究，作為唯一一位環境科學學人，我必須要想一個能在台北和上海演講的主題，垃圾就是一個最明顯的題材。因為當你來到台灣，你會發現台灣街道上都沒有垃圾，這點讓我感到非常新奇，為什麼會沒有垃圾呢？當時我也發現並沒有什麼關於台灣廢棄物管理轉型的英文資訊，所以我就決定住在台灣，研究這個讓我很著迷的題目。那是2013年的事，後來我獲得傅爾布萊特獎助金在墾丁海生館擔任訪問學者一年，至此之後我就待了下來。大約六個月前，我開始在銳思碳管理顧問公司上班，我們負責協助大型品牌和他們的供應鏈設定並達成碳供應鏈目標。這是我們剛在台灣成立的新辦公室，公司的總部在香港，但我們想要把重心移到台灣，因為台灣是關鍵的供應鏈環節。我們認為台灣將在永續報告和減碳目標上持續成長，而且台灣真的是個好地方。

台灣有很多我很喜歡的優點，我覺得最棒但很少被注意到的一點是台灣的生物多樣性。台灣是亞熱帶島嶼，擁有非常豐富多樣的原生種和特有種，美麗的蝴蝶、螢火蟲、珊瑚、鯨鯊、鮪魚、熊……物種多到我三天三夜都講不完。而且就算不開車，也很容易親近大自然。我也喜歡騎單車，台灣的單車道做的非常好，還有優質的單車品牌和產品。我在台灣大多時候過的很不錯，沒什麼好抱怨的，食物也好吃。而且台灣人基本上對科學有充分的信任和熱忱，許多民選官員都曾經是醫生、科學家、工程師等等，連總統都曾發表過博士論文。台灣的前副總統大概是地球上最有資格帶領對抗新冠疫情的領袖。感覺上，台灣有很多科學家，當個理工宅男好像也很OK。」

✨馬耐德(Nate Maynard)連續兩年(2014及2015 年)榮獲美國傅爾布萊特獎助學金，現為「鬼島之音Waste Not Why Not」節目製作及主持人，及銳思碳管理顧問股份有限公司高級顧問。

💕Why I chose Taiwan #14 – Environmental sciences scholar Nate Maynard discover Taiwan’s and its key role in supply chains

"I’m from San Diego California originally. My undergrad was from Soka University of America; liberal arts with a concentration in environmental studies, and I work on fresh-water fishes mostly and basic fisheries. And then my Master’s program was at the Monterey Institute of International Studies with a concentration in ocean and coastal resource management. One of my professors was Taiwanese, and she said: ‘you gotta go to Taiwan,’ as most Taiwanese people living abroad will tell foreigners.

And I did go visit Taiwan for a cross-Strait research trip, and as the only environment person, I had to come up with something I could talk about in Taipei and Shanghai, and garbage was the most obvious thing. Because when you come to Taiwan, there’s no garbage, and I became fascinated: Why is there no garbage? I realized there really wasn’t much information in English about Taiwan’s waste management transformation, and that’s sort of how I got hooked and decided I wanted to live in Taiwan. That was 2013. And then I got the Fulbright Fellowship and spent a year at the National Aquarium in Kenting....and they haven’t been able to get me to leave. About six months ago, I started working for a private consulting firm called Reset Carbon. We help major brands and their supply chains set and achieve carbon supply chain targets. This is a new office that we just set up in Taiwan. The company’s headquarter is in Hong Kong, but we wanted to pivot to Taiwan because Taiwan’s the key supply chain link. We expect to see Taiwan growing in terms of sustainability reporting, carbon reduction goals, and Taiwan’s just a nice place.

There’s a couple things that I really enjoy about Taiwan. I think the best thing that doesn’t get enough coverage is biodiversity. Taiwan is a sub-tropical island. It’s full of native and endemic species, beautiful butterflies, fireflies, coral, whale sharks, tuna, bears...I can list the animals for hours. It’s easy for me to go and get access to nature, even without a car. I also enjoy biking and Taiwan has excellent biking infrastructure, and great bike companies that make fine products. Most aspects of my life in Taiwan are pretty good. I can’t complain. Food is great too. I think there’s also a general trust and enthusiasm for science in Taiwan. I mean there’s a lot of elected officials that are doctors, scientists, engineers, and the president has published papers as a PhD. And you know, the vice president was probably the most qualified person on Earth to lead the COVID response. In Taiwan, it feels like the scientists are pretty well-represented, and like being a nerd is kinda okay." -- Nate Maynard

✨Nate Maynard won Fulbright Fellowship two times in a row (2014-15, 2015-16), now serving as a program host and producer of “Waste Not Why Not” with Ghost Island Media and a senior consultant at Reset Carbon.

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The Fulbright Program is one of the most prestigious awards programs worldwide involving over 180 countries. Since 1963, almost a thousand Malaysian have been recipients of this world-renown award including Marina Mahathir, Ramli Ibrahim, Mr. Lewis Pragasam and Senator Koh Tsu Koon.

The Malaysian-American Commission on Educational Exchange (MACEE) established in 1963 promotes inter-cultural understanding through education and educational exchange between Malaysia and the United States.

While most Malaysians shy away from applying to the Fulbright program because of its perceived elitism, a recent interview with MACEE executive director, Dr James Coffman, shed light on the selection process.

Coffman reiterates that MACEE looks for individuals of passion, dynamism and character; who are inspirational and leaders in their own right. They have a good sense of what areas of study they intend to pursue and how these might contribute to their professional development. If this describes you, then Coffman would encourage you to apply.

He stresses that there has to be a sense of balance about the candidate; he or she needs to have strong sense of purpose and be able to carry herself well enough to represent Malaysia.

Among the areas of study offered are in the arts, speech therapy, voice measurement, psychology, behavioral science, dance, photo-journalism, teaching, political science, and HIV/AIDS policy and prevention.

There are a wide variety of grants available through MACEE for educational exchange. Grants for Malaysians include the Fulbright Malaysian Scholar Program, Fulbright Malaysian Professional Exchange Program, Fulbright Graduate Study and Research Program, the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award, Hubert H. Humphrey Program, and the Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program.

Other US Grants (Non Fulbright) include the International Leaders in Education Program and the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program. For more information, please go to www.macee.org.my

by Indrani Kopal
August 24, 2011