今天,台灣法律正式承認同性婚姻,開亞洲先例,恭喜台灣!❤️❤️❤️只有在台灣這樣的民主體制之下,人權和公民權才能獲得保護和滋長。台灣LGBT社群對平等的追求是一個非常鼓舞人心的旅程,也是整個世界的榜樣。但是這樣的努力尚未完成!像台灣和美國這樣的民主體制要必須不斷努力主張維護所有人的平等和尊嚴,無論性取向、性別認同、種族和宗教。 今天,AIT社群,包括我們AIT的四對已婚同性伴侶,與台灣一同歡欣鼓舞地慶祝這個歷史性時刻。恭喜! #Taiwan #MarriageEquality #LGBT #ItGetsBetter
Today, Taiwan officially became the first in Asia to legally recognize the marriage of same-sex couples. Congratulations, Taiwan! ❤️❤️❤️Only in a democracy such as Taiwan’s can human rights and civil rights be protected and nurtured. The Taiwan LGBT community’s quest for equality has been an inspiring journey and an example for the entire world. But the work is never done! Democracies like Taiwan and the United States must constantly strive to assert the equality and dignity of all persons, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity, race and religion. Today, the AIT community, including AIT’s four married same-sex couples, are joyful in celebrating with Taiwan this historic moment. Congratulations!
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【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.
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首先祝福所有的有情人都可以終成眷屬 <3
美國在台協會「實質上」等同於美國駐台的使館,這邊的發言就是代表美國政府(行政部門)的立場。FB上的發言不是想發就發,而是要經過層層批准的。
大家要知道,現在美國執政黨是屬於保守派的共和黨,政治菁英們的立場大致上可以說是反同的。
不過,正如同先前的觀察,若我們從美國的保守派媒體(例如Fox News)來看,保守派菁英們對台灣通過同婚的看法就是:這更可以證實台灣擁有一個充滿活力的公民社會、是一個完全的自由民主國家。
AIT貼文:https://www.facebook.com/AIT.Social.Media/posts/10157157211493490
從5/17以來,台灣已經成為世界媒體的中心焦點啊!還有許多國家的外交單位直接發了賀電。
追求平等權的路上,大家繼續一起努力!
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【小常識補充】
還是要再強調一次,「保守」和「自由」沒有褒貶義,就是意識型態的標籤。有些政黨甚至會直接以「保守」為名呢!例如英國現在的執政黨就是。
大致上來說保守派比較重視權威和秩序,在一些重大議題上:他們通常反墮胎、反同婚、反槍枝管制、主張減稅和比較少的社會福利、反對太多環保政策,因為覺得這樣是對個人自由的限制etc。
在美國所有的民調最基本的題目都會問大家覺得自己是自由派、保守派、還是中間。正如同台灣的民調常會問大家覺得自己是台灣人、中國人,或者都是(以及統獨題目)。台灣就是因為有統獨以及中國因素存在,所以人們對於左/右(或者,保守/自由)的分別(social cleavage)並不明顯。
今天,台灣法律正式承認同性婚姻,開亞洲先例,恭喜台灣!❤️❤️❤️只有在台灣這樣的民主體制之下,人權和公民權才能獲得保護和滋長。台灣LGBT社群對平等的追求是一個非常鼓舞人心的旅程,也是整個世界的榜樣。但是這樣的努力尚未完成!像台灣和美國這樣的民主體制要必須不斷努力主張維護所有人的平等和尊嚴,無論性取向、性別認同、種族和宗教。 今天,AIT社群,包括我們AIT的四對已婚同性伴侶,與台灣一同歡欣鼓舞地慶祝這個歷史性時刻。恭喜! #Taiwan #MarriageEquality #LGBT #ItGetsBetter
Today, Taiwan officially became the first in Asia to legally recognize the marriage of same-sex couples. Congratulations, Taiwan! ❤️❤️❤️Only in a democracy such as Taiwan’s can human rights and civil rights be protected and nurtured. The Taiwan LGBT community’s quest for equality has been an inspiring journey and an example for the entire world. But the work is never done! Democracies like Taiwan and the United States must constantly strive to assert the equality and dignity of all persons, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity, race and religion. Today, the AIT community, including AIT’s four married same-sex couples, are joyful in celebrating with Taiwan this historic moment. Congratulations!
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