【Taiwanology Ep.62】Europe’s Widening Case for Taiwan, From Chips to Information War

TSMC in Dresden. Foxconn in Bordeaux. A German chemicals giant in Kaohsiung. EU-Taiwan industrial ties are deepening fast, and it's mutual: EU states have invested more in Taiwan than the US and Japan combined. EETO head Lutz Güllner explains what Chips Act 2.0 changes, where Taiwan fits into Europe's industrial strategy beyond chips, and how Taiwan's civil society is countering foreign information manipulation.


Episode highlights:
07:23 How EU-Taiwan relations reached their most active point yet
09:09 The EU Council's landmark Taiwan statement
17:01 The Industrial Accelerator Act and the EU Chips Act 2.0
24:15 FIMI: naming foreign information manipulation and interference
32:44 Why understanding Taiwanese politics matters for a diplomat

Host: Kwangyin Liu, Deputy Managing Editor, CommonWealth Magazine
Guest: Lutz Güllner, Head of the European Economic and Trade Office in Taipei

Producers: Yayuan Chang, Weiru Wang

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