Chinese attempts to influence overseas communities has “never ceased,” even as Taiwan seizes opportunities to expand its educational reach abroad, Overseas Community Affairs Council Minister Tung Chen-yuan (童振源) said yesterday, while urging continued vigilance against Beijing’s “united front” campaigns.
Speaking at a regular meeting of the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, Tung discussed China’s recent “united front” efforts abroad.
Beijing has been revealing its ambition to endanger the global order through authoritarianism, he said, citing its deliberate concealment of COVID-19 at the beginning of the outbreak in Wuhan in 2019, crackdowns in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, and sabotage of cross-strait
By Chen Yu-fu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerChinese attempts to influence overseas communities has “never ceased,” even as Taiwan seizes opportunities to expand its educational reach abroad, Overseas Community Affairs Council Minister Tung Chen-yuan （童振源） said yesterday, while urging continued vigilance against Beijing’s “united front” campaigns.
Taiwan’s representative office in the US yesterday announced the launch of a Web site to facilitate efforts to replace Confucius Institutes as the go-to establishment for learning Mandarin.
The Learn & Study in Taiwan Web site can be accessed at www.us2taiwan.org, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the US (TECRO) said.
The Overseas Compatriot Affairs Council since 2020 has established more than 35 Taiwan Centers for Mandarin Learning across the US.
Representative to the US Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) signed the Memorandum of Understanding on International Education Cooperation with American Institute in Taiwan Managing Director Ingrid Larson in December 2020.
“Taiwan respects academic
By Jake Chung / Staff writer, with CNATaiwan’s representative office in the US yesterday announced the launch of a Web site to facilitate efforts to replace Confucius Institutes as the go-to establishment for learning Mandarin.
CULTURE
<strong>Paris Taiwan center opens</strong>
France’s second Taiwan Center for Mandarin Learning opened in Paris on Saturday, and is to promote Taiwanese culture and Taiwanese-style Mandarin learning in the country. The center was inaugurated at L’Encrier Chinois, a Chinese-language school that opened in 2005. Representative to France Francois Wu (吳志中) and Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) Deputy Minister Hsu Chia-ching (徐佳青) attended the opening ceremony. Hsu said the center, founded by Taipei, serves as a platform for French to learn about Taiwanese culture and democracy. OCAC began opening Mandarin language centers in September last year. Today, 45 centers have been established around