Foreign Affairs committee  I can't give you the exact answer but I can tell you that Taiwan does have FIPAs with a number of its trading partners. Those include many of its diplomatic allies, but I don't think all of the 14. Also, I think, there are more recent FIPA-style agreements. They're not exactly the same as ours.

Foreign Affairs committee  I could comment a bit further, perhaps, that what we saw happening in Hong Kong had a profound impact on Taiwan and Taiwanese politics, for sure. In Taiwan, basically the Hong Kong reality of what happened with the national security law...essentially told most Taiwanese that “one country, two systems” was clearly out; it was no longer an option for the majority of Taiwanese.

Foreign Affairs committee  The GCTF is a good example. This is a platform called the Global Cooperation and Training Framework, based in Taiwan. There are a couple of other partners; the U.S. and Japan are the principal partners, and Australia has just joined. This is a platform that Taiwan uses to promote essentially good governance throughout the region and beyond.