If she gave you a call tomorrow, and asked you to name one thing that western countries could learn from Taiwan, what would you reply?

Maybe before we can talk for a second about COVID, and how Taiwan has handled COVID… So, obviously, we’re in Germany. I’m a German Taiwanese journalist [Mandarin:我會講一些中文可是我的中文不是很好所以必須用英文]. What our readers would find interesting is: do you know Dorothee Bär.

You publish everything you do, the meetings, the interviews that you give, including this, you’re transcribing it. We’re wondering: this principle, surely some of your more traditional colleagues in the cabinet, for example, must at times find that annoying – that the Digital Minister wants to publish everything.

Something else that you’ve implemented is you often stress your principle of radical transparency.

Yes. Hi, it’s great to see you. Thank you for taking the time. Our first question is, “Why are we not allowed to use Zoom for this interview?”