Taiwan's Vice President Calls for Closer EU Ties in Rare Address to International Lawmakers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Last month Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te vowed to accelerate the building of the air defense system "T-Dome," or Taiwan Dome, and boost defense spending to reach 5 percent of Taiwan's GDP by 2030 amid growing security concerns.
52% : She said that the Chinese regime's disruptions of global supply chains -- likely a reference partly to Beijing's throttling of rare earth exports to the EU earlier this year -- should push Brussels to forge with Taiwan "a reliable technology ecosystem rooted in trust, transparency and democratic values" like they already have for semiconductor sales.
50% : While Hsiao did not formally address the whole EU Parliament -- the European trade bloc does not have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan -- her visit drew ire from the Chinese communist regime.
49% : BRUSSELS -- Taiwan's deputy leader urged the European Union to boost security and trade ties with the self-governing island and support its democracy in the face of growing threats by China, in a rare address to a group of international lawmakers in Brussels on Friday.
47% : " Ben Bland, director of the Asia-Pacific program at the London-based think tank Chatham House, wrote in an analysis last month that despite the lack of formal diplomatic relations, the EU and Taiwan can do much more to deepen ties for mutual benefit in the face of worsening U.S.-China rivalry.
45% : EU members, like most countries including the United States, have no formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan and follow a "One China" policy.
40% : But the EU and Taiwan share common democratic values as well as close trade ties, and the bloc opposes any use of military force by China to settle its dispute with Taiwan.

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