Audrey Tang

Yeah, I think we are really helped by the fact that President Tsai Ing-wen, when she was inaugurated in 2016, said in her speech, and I quote, Before, democracy was a showdown between two opposing values. But from now onward, democracy is to become a conversation between many diverse values. So basically, depolarization was part of her platform. And having the ministers joining the cabinet on that platform, I think, really helps. And last year, we have seen around the world, I think half of the democratic population went to the votes, right? And not a single ruling party retained all their seats. They all lost some seats. And many of them not to the traditional opposition party, but rather to the more extreme part of the political ideologies. Ideologies, which is why I think now people around the world in democracies are at a time like Taiwan was in 2016, to collectively say, we're tired of polarization and really ready to move on.

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