What’s the most popular topics, nowadays, this platform?
Why do you think especially…?
It’s cute, not because Taiwanese have such a special relationship to cats and dogs. Even your president is posing with cats…
We Taiwanese have that really special relationship to cats and dogs?
How successful is that initiatives?
Yeah.
For example, also as it comes to China, I’ve seen several petitions, for example, ones who are saying we want to have a counter-propaganda department against China, and who like…
Yes, I’ve seen it on this one.
I have…
I think I’ve sent it. It’s… I think those other ones which happens…
I think this one with the PRC flag and this one was something else.
Ah yes.
How do they have it?
When I have a search, where do it…
Thanks. I think I searched for…because one of them…
You remember we looked for like the people and suggested that they’re going to have a ministry and about disinformation.
Yes.
It’s because of this…
I suggest because it’s already 9:50, that we start with the shooting of the…
Yeah, the screens.
Um…
I think the reason we have it already for, and he explained about the flag thing…
Just before?
Then let’s say, how can I frame it? Not every question, not every petition…
Yeah. For example, we have one. People want to have a new ministerial department against China interference, for example, and it wasn’t approved.
Let’s not reflect and perhaps the screens of the Join.gov.tw, and I hope I can see through my screen.
This is like the…
That one, yeah. Like the important thing is this, that it’s a…
Can you go back to also the link at the top again to see what…?
With, yeah, the proposal.
Also, we only have the title, or just have…?
Then, let’s go to the hair picture.
The hair?
Can you just…
Yep.
The poem.
We had the example of the…
What do I have on my list? I have your poems.
Then you have the poems?
Genau, the poems.
Yeah, this is the new one.
How long did you think about this poem?
I think you have, also I would like to have, if you could like also throw in a few gadgets here in, for example.
We get a little bit of the impression, yes, it is a digital…
Digital workplace.
Are we on-time?
OK.
For five months now, people in Hong Kong have been protesting for democracy and against what they perceive as a growing influence by the mainland government from China. As an official from Taiwan – an island which Beijing considers a “breakaway territory” – how do you view these protests?
The protests there have grown more violent in the last period of time and there’s the chance that at some point Beijing says “we’ve had enough, we’re going to intervene with force.” How do you view this?
Now you’ve started writing computer code when you were a kid; you’ve been active as a hacker, as a computer hacker; now you’re the Digital Minister of Taiwan, and you’re calling for the reinvention of democracy. How’s it supposed to look like and how do you perceive your own role in it?
