Why does it not make it difficult?

I was wondering if there is a similar structure in Taiwan, and if so, how does that make your work difficult?

Yeah, and the second one is, at least in my opinion, I think in Germany lobbies are pretty strong, and they have a strong influence in how ultra-mobile, car industry has a very strong influence on what laws are passed in Germany, and how they are passed.

I was wondering how you face this problem, once with for example, opposition in government and the second one…

Are you never met with any resistance? In Germany, with the opposition party, for example, it’s super-difficult to have any law passed. They say, “No, no. We want it like this, and not like that,” and they don’t budge from their stance.

I was wondering. In Germany, I think most of us complain about whatever the government does and how not well thought through it is. You say you only have to make this petition, then you will test it, and then you will implement the law.

Two more questions, go into a different topic. You said before, with your radical transparency, you were able to more or less make the system more efficient by having other people also participate in the process.

Published by the government.

Is it an official document?

Are there any other means of your ministerial, or ministry, or any way to offer something as an alternative to mainland China?

Following up my own question, are you basically most of it was focused on, OK, we have other components we could offer, should other countries not want to use mainland Chinese component.

Yeah, so talking about the critical infrastructure for the 5G network. We’re talking about it right now in Germany a lot, and also Huawei, so is your opinion that we in Germany should ban Huawei?

Thank you for the answer.

Yeah. I wonder if you can participate in these processes. What is the digital literacy of the elderly in Taiwan?

Yes.

And the probability of unification, and how you see that topic?

I would like to know of course why you don’t speak of “reunification,” but of “unification.”

Looking at cross strait relations, Taiwan, it’s in my opinion, try to be a bit more independent form China, since China’s the greatest economic partner in this part, and since your focus is on digitalization, I was wondering if your ministry has any mean of counteracting that economic power and ...

China’s planning on being top in all key technologies by 2025. I was wondering if Taiwan has any sort of not necessarily countermeasure, but something to keep up so that they cannot put too much pressure on Taiwan…

Was going in the same direction, if you have the feeling that your influence extends socially, outside politically?

My interest would be in governance of your innovation lab, did you face resistance? The public sector is usually very reluctant to endorse such ideas. How was your relationship with the other ministries, how you set it up, etc.

Who’s coming? Who’s talking to you? What do they want to talk about?

My question was kind of similar, how are you perceived among your colleagues is very interesting. How is it how you have this radical openness approach so people can come to your lab and talk to you for a full day, so do people use this?

I would be interested into the change of making all these discussions public, and what the implications were. You probably had discussion before which were not public, and whether the discussion or the way discussion was held changed, and what the outcome of the discussion was?

I wonder how and if there’s also an idea of data protection, and people living in China are now seeing how much digitalization is like in some way enhancing every day life, but also enhancing the surveillance of every day life. I wonder how Taiwan wants to deal with it?

We are reading on Taiwan’s view of digitalization of Taiwan. Which future of digitalization Taiwan wants to move towards. We’ve read about AI, Internet of Things, and Taiwan’s smart tech innovation.

Previously we’ve been talking about the problem of China paying Taiwanese journalist who publish some pro-Chinese opinions. I was wondering if there was some kind of technical solution, maybe utilizing blockchain or like some type of web of trust or something to fight fake news?

Maybe give an example of how it was implemented, how it was trialed.

I just wanted to ask you described a certain way of making law, how many laws have you passed in that work in that specific manner?

It’s a topic of the innovation lab, so what exactly is happening at the innovation lab?

In Germany if you gave us a good overview of the work that you do, I’m not sure that any more questions towards that topic?

Social Innovation Lab.

In Germany, we’re interested in the digital innovation space. You called it different way, what is it called?

Hi. I’m also a medical student, but I have not graduated yet. My current research focus has nothing to do with Taiwan but I’m generally interested in what could happen to Taiwan, what will happen in the future, what’s the current situation.

…occupational medicine perspective.

Yeah. Right now, I’m attending a new job around digitalization of workspace…

…protester and development there. I’m interested how…Taiwan’s perspective.

My name is Markus. I am studying media-related studies, too, technology arts and culture studies. I’m studying, getting a double degree in Germany and in Hong Kong. I’ve been living in Hong Kong, studying, for almost two years now. Also getting along…

Hi. I’m completing my master’s at Stockholm University, performance studies. I’m currently studying at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. I’m studying Chinese. That’s also why I’m interested in the whole problem. I’ve been talking a lot with Chinese people about their view on Taiwan, but I haven’t spoken with any Taiwanese ...

My name is Jakob. I’m studying management and technology, but I’m currently studying abroad in Singapore. I’m also very interested in everything that’s going on with Taiwan and China and what this means for our global political landscape.

Hi. I study public policy, and I work for the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy. My research focus is mostly on energy and climate policy, but I’m also interested in innovation policies in the public sector. I’m interested in this right now.

I’m Sophia. I study political science and law in Munich. I’m very interested in political systems. That’s why I’m so interested in this topic.

My name’s Oran. I’m studying journalism and economics in Bonn. I’m mostly interested in the developing media systems.

Hi, I’m researching on using tradition in parametric design.

I’ll continue. I come from Aachen. I study electrical engineering. My research focus is on artificial intelligence. It’s my first time in Asia.

For me, I’m Felix. I’m studying law in Hamburg, in the northern part of Germany. I’ve been living in China for six years, in Shanghai. That’s how I got interested in this topic.

During this week, we’re going to meet in total, I think, 10 different people from professors to politicians to businessmen, to give us a brief overview of the topic. At the end of the week, we try to at least have a better idea of how to answer the question ...

“Unification” then. Yes.

Actually, we’ve just been talking about this specific topic, with the “re-unification” or “unification.”

Excuse me?