Wednesday, October 06, 2021

Poland: An Emerging Partner for Taiwan in Central and Eastern Europe

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"After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Taipei donated 1 million surgical face masks, 5,000 protective suits, and 20,000 surgical gowns to Poland. The Central European country returned the gesture in early September by shipping 400,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan, making it the island’s third-largest vaccine donor (after Japan and the United States) and the largest vaccine donor from the European Union (EU). ...
Poland’s friendly gesture of sending COVID-19 vaccines to Taiwan comes on the heels of earlier vaccine donations by Lithuania, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic ... Disagreements over economic and trade issues and human rights in Xinjiang and Hong Kong have led to recent tensions between the European Union (EU) and China. Meanwhile, Chinese donations of defective medical equipment to EU countries to combat COVID-19 have increased European mistrust of Beijing ..."

Vol. 6, Issue 19 – Global Taiwan Institute



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