European Chamber of Commerce in Taipei celebrated its Europe Day last month with a massive dinner. 640 guests came to hear President Ma speak about Taiwan and Europe.
President Ma addressing guests
To me, the relationship between Taiwan and Europe has always felt like "tomorrow's relationship". The relationship has developed steadily in recent years: Europe is now the single largest foreign investor in Taiwan; Taiwanese are studying in ever increasing numbers at European universities (mostly in the UK of course), and so on. President Ma gave more examples in his speech on 14 May.
But still, we could do so much more: Europe's Single Market is the world's biggest economy (over 500 million rich, sophisticated consumers) and yet only 1% of Taiwan's investment goes there. We need to do more to exploit that potential.
Posted at 21:51 23 June 2009 by Charles Garrett | Comments[4]
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