Two areas, I was just finish up mentioning. One, we want to actually serve as a hub for Central European experts on disinformation, which could come to Taipei, to share their knowledge from Central Eastern Europe, mainly on Russian disinformation and public communications or government communications to it with their ...

In practical terms, we are opening our office here as EVC, hopefully, in a couple of weeks. We are finishing up our registration of with your Ministry of Interior, and we will have some future, let’s say, a permanent stand here in Taipei to actually have more direct cooperation.

That’s what actually matters at the end. Not only the political one, but let’s say, the more practical ones, which have political impact.

Since our organization actually focuses on these affairs of national security and things related to digital disinformation, we are searching for what partnership we could make, so that, let’s say, the political relationship, which will be growing this year and the coming years, which is only…we could translate it into ...

I hope so. Now, in recent two or three years, we have a lot of political or diplomatic openings, between various political leaders from Central Europe, Lithuania being the bravest one to start it, but we hope that Czech Republic will be the second now. We finally have a good ...

Yes.

That’s where I see a lot of potential. First, because of the shared values, but, second, of the shared threat as well. I would say, until now, there has been very little cooperation on practical level, because Taiwan has mainly focused on Western Europe. Now, because of our ongoing diplomatic ...

We are looking around how we could be helpful. That’s why thanks to your Foreign Ministry, we are here, both of us, so that we could spend a couple of months here in Taipei, learn about what other organizations are doing here, and, basically, plan our future activities, in cooperation ...

Most of our focus, we have team of 28 people, focuses on Russian disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe. Given the rise of China and Chinese interests activities in our region, we have found a lot of good partners here in Taiwan. Our official partners are the INDSR, the Defense ...

…and then maybe discuss a bit what I think might interest to you as well. Our team is in Prague since 2005. We focus mainly on security policy affairs related to Russia and in recent years of China.

I maybe would just briefly introduce what we do…

Let’s get started. Thank you for having us. I’m Jakub Janda, Director of European Values Center for Security Policy based in Prague, Czech Republic, and this is my spouse Adriana. She runs Communications and People in Need, which is one of the largest NGOs in Central Eastern Europe.