Hsiao Bi-khim (Hsiao, Vice President of Taiwan)

apps and information verification avenues for our citizens.

I do think that our society is aware that disinformation is a big problem.

There is that understanding that we always need to think twice.

We need to check on the sources.

We need to check on the information.

That is already a big step.

Again, there are always new tricks, and these new tricks always require further responses.

And part of that is also, on our side, understanding the source of disinformation and calling them out.

when we can clearly identify patterns of where this disinformation is coming from.

And there are what we call content farms in China that develop, they grow content and build content to be disseminated in Taiwan.

And when we trace different patterns and content back to China and call them out for that, it also helps to educate and raise awareness within our society.

Yeah, when we look at these timelines, it involves intentions and it also involves capabilities.

And I think ultimately for Taiwan, everything we are doing is to prevent

conflict from happening, whether it is 2027 or before that or beyond that.

And so we need to work on both intentions as well as capabilities.

On the capability side, again, investing in our own defense in an asymmetric way, in a way that provides a deterrent or complicates their calculations in

having the confidence that this can be done in a way that does not impose serious costs on the Chinese Communist Party.

I think that is the direction we are trying to move on in terms of

balancing those capabilities.

On the intentions side, it's no secret that the PRC has laid claim to Taiwan and that they are enforcing that through their diplomatic, military, and economic tools on a global level.