Bye bye.

Thank you very much.

Sorry, Martin.

Yeah, unfortunately.

You’re definitely one step ahead of many other countries in the world when looking at the digital innovation that you’ve been starting in 2016 within the Taiwanese government. We would need another hour to [laughs] cover all of the different…

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

If you could send us.

Is it possible to get access to that document?

Before you start with the personal question, I might have one follow up question here. An organizational question, because Jay has also joined here. Is there the possibility to send us the invitation of tenders for the submissions that will start early next year? If you could send us a ...

Looking at this case, what role did the Internet play here in letting citizens communicate, but also providing them with the information they need, because people are afraid, aren’t they?

Thank you. That’s exactly what I was talking about. If we’re looking at a very concrete case in the past, after Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei, we had the Chinese marine in the Taiwanese sea. They were even above the submarine cables that we’ve been talking about earlier.

How can you prepare for, let’s say, an invasion?

If we could dig a bit deeper into that, into what you expect from a satellite network, in the serious case of, let’s say, an invasion, or as you call it an earthquake, what will the Internet do for Taiwanese citizens? What are the programs that you can launch? For ...

Then what your ministry is working on in the digital sphere, the cybersecurity, because another sector that we’re looking at, it’s not only the hardware, but then it’s about the software, and then you’re talking about the Internet of Things and of avoiding fake news coming from mainland China and ...

Analysts say that there is the possibility for Taiwan to scale up the semiconductor industry to become an independent space country that’s part in the global space industry, which Taiwan is not right now. What are the prospectus there if you’re looking at the potential that Taiwan has to scale ...

On your National Day last month, President Tsai Ing wen mentioned that there must be more investions into the space industry, into the domestic space industry in Taiwan. You mentioned the semiconductor industry earlier.

That’s the test trial, right?

Sure, but is there a certain budget already if the…? If avoiding the lock ins, is that important? There must be a budget for your ministry, for the government, that’s already put out somewhere, how you’re going to finance the whole cybersecurity project.

If we’re talking about that many companies providing service and about this heterogenic approach to cybersecurity, what some of investments are you thinking of when thinking of installing all these different services and paying all these different providers here?

We know that China developed techniques to bring down Starlink satellites. There are studies, I’m sure you know them. What reactions do you expect from there, if we’re talking about the political part? Not about the technological independency but the political independency.

If we’re looking at it from a more political perspective, and less from a technological perspective, what reactions do you expect from mainland China in case you’re working together with, for example, US companies that are providing you with communication services?

How will the government ensure that Taiwan will have the full control over the networks and the signal without interventions from these…?

We’ve been talking to analysts that told us that in the Ukraine, for example, well, they said that everything Starlink does, the US government knows. I’m very sure that the political context in which Taiwan stands will need Taiwan to be more autonomous and independent when we’re talking about the ...

When working together with those commercial companies — the smaller ones, but then also larger ones like OneWeb, for example — will Taiwan and the government ensure autonomy and independence from these companies?

All right.

I see.

You already started the submission phase. Is that correct? You started…

We’re talking about providers that do have a convenient network of satellites up there in the lower Earth orbit. They’re basically two, and those are Starlink and OneWeb. Does any of those companies meet your safety requirements? Are you in consultation with any of those companies?

Taiwan will build them?

Receivers, right?

What about the satellites? Are there up there already? Will they have to be launched? Who will launch them? The whole hardware question. It’s going to be 700…

We’re not talking about 700 satellites, we’re talking about 700 receiver stations, like the one in [Mandarin] . My question now is, the receiver stations, what part in constructing them will Taiwan play and where, for example, will there have to be knowledge imported from external companies or states?

Martin, please.

What are the concrete plans that you were thinking of when you were announcing the testing trails for the satellites, the US$18 million testing trails that you mentioned?

You just mentioned the deep fakes and the fake news that people might be confronted with in case the communication infrastructure in Taiwan gets damaged in case of an invasion. Before we start about the whole software and information part, we’d like to talk about the hardware that needs to ...

We would like to start by the motivation that’s behind this announcement you made in September, and also the political context that we’re talking about here. Especially if we’re looking at Mainland China and the threat you’re facing from there, are you expecting an invasion anytime soon? Is there any ...

In September, you announced plans for Taiwan’s satellite strategy. You mentioned Ukraine, and you mentioned what Starlink, the success of Starlink had in Ukraine with Ukraine’s military.

[laughs] Great. Minister Tang, again, thanks so much for taking the time. In September, you announced…Oh, there’s our colleague from New York. Hi, Felix.

He’ll be joining. I sent him the link again. Maybe we can start and then he’ll be here.

One second. I just got a message from R Quick.

Right.

We can first start by thanking you for taking the time to give us this interview. We will be talking about Taiwan’s satellites project that you announced. We’ll be talking a bit about your space industry, and your Internet strategy. I’m sure our colleague will be here soon. Then, we ...

Thank you. I will start…

If you agree, I would like to record the audio as a backup for the notes.

No. We are publishing the article. We are informed that you will record a video, and then publish the…