Of course, PRC condemned our attendance. When journalists asked me a couple of days ago, I said, “If they also want to attend, they can choose to democratize too.” It’s their choice. I think it also helps to counter their narrative this way by affirming Taiwan as a bed of democracy. We were much more comfortable with that compared to a, I don’t know, self- governing island or jurisdiction or whatever other terms that diplomats use, because we were a full democracy, and nobody denies that.

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