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Ministry announces Europe scholarship program
By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday announced a Taiwan-Europe Connectivity Scholarship program to attract more European students to study Mandarin in the nation and advance bilateral relations.
The program aims to fortify Taiwan-Europe ties and encourage local universities to build up English-teaching environments, Department of European Affairs Deputy Director-General Kendra Chen (陳詠韶) told a news briefing in Taipei.
The program echoes the EU’s Europe-Asia Connectivity Strategy and the UK’s Global Britain vision, she said, expressing the hope that academic partnership would foster collaboration in other areas.
Department of European Affairs Deputy Director-General Kendra Chen speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
French senator welcome to visit Taiwan, MOFA says
By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
French Senator Alain Richard is welcome to visit Taiwan under COVID-19 quarantine measures, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday, as it condemned Beijing’s attempts to pressure Richard into canceling his trip.
French newspaper
La Lettre A on Monday reported that Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye (盧沙野) sent Richard a letter asking him to cancel a planned parliamentary trip to Taiwan this summer.
Lu reportedly told the French senator that the trip would affect the “status quo” between Taipei and Beijing, while reasserting Beijing’s “one China” principle and that Taiwan is an “indivisible part of China.”