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The Taiwan frigate deal was a huge political scandal, both in Taiwan and France. [25] Eight people involved in the contract died in unusual and possibly suspicious circumstances. [ 26 ] Arms dealer Andrew Wang fled Taiwan to the UK after the body of presumptive whistleblower Captain Yin Ching-feng was found floating in the sea. [ 27 ]
The French Office in Taipei (Chinese: 法國在台協會; pinyin: Fàguó Zài Tái Xiéhuì; French: Bureau français de Taipei, BFT) represents France's interests in Taiwan in the absence of formal diplomatic relations, functioning as a de facto embassy. Its counterpart in France is the Taipei Representative Office in France, based in Paris.
It provides different services to the general public and different public and private institutions in France with an aim to promote the relations between ROC (Taiwan) and France and to facilitate exchanges in different fields. The Office is headed by a Representative, currently Wu Chih-chung. A fluent French speaker, he was appointed to the ...
France and Taiwan on Thursday signed a wide-ranging agreement to enable their film and TV industries co-operate on a higher level. At a signing ceremony in Taipei at the Taiwan Creative Culture ...
The Taiwan frigate scandal, or the Lafayette scandal, was a political scandal in Taiwan and France regarding the sale of La Fayette-class frigates by Thomson-CSF to Taiwan. ROCS Kun Ming (PFG-1205) History
Taiwan also regards the European Union, with which it also has unofficial relations via the Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium, as a state entity in the context of international relations; the EU is a supranational union with a high level of integration between its member states, though each member state retains its national ...
“Xi Jinping stressed that the Taiwan question is the core of China’s core interest,” Xi told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Beijing on Thursday according to a ...
One of the most important steps in the development of the economic relations between Taiwan and the EU was the inclusion of Taiwan in the European Commission's trade and investment strategy “Trade for All” as part of its Asia-Pacific strategy in October 2015, [19] in which the EU announced that it “will explore launching negotiations on ...