And so, my point is that if the people in Taiwan back then bought into that authoritarian narrative, that fuels authoritarian expansionism and would send the wrong message to the democratic world, basically saying democracy doesn’t work for those very large emerging threats. But by working together, not just within Taiwan, but with people around the world that believes in this sort of civil society-led innovations, including mask use, contact tracing, vaccination and things like that, we turned what we learned in counter disinformation, the infodemic, into valuable lessons to counter the pandemic. And so, I think together now, people in democracies around the world understand that the Taiwan model really works and we work together to counter the narrative that only authoritarianism is a solution to the emerging threats.

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