Please agree to our privacy policy to enable news listening. (Central News Agency reporter Wu Baiwei Leuven, 27th) This year’s Belgian Taiwan Culture Day was held in Leuven. In addition to screening the documentary “Mountain Builders” and holding a Taiwanese folk concert, local creative groups were also invited to share the life, culture and customs of Taiwan’s outlying islands. The video also explained the multiple pressures faced by outlying island residents amid geopolitical friction. The Taiwan Culture Day held in Leuven on the 26th was themed “Island Trilogy” and showcased Taiwan’s different features through special speeches, documentary screenings and music performances. The scene attracted more than a hundred Taiwanese overseas Chinese, overseas students and foreign friends to participate in the grand event. In an interview with the Central News Agency, Xie Zhiwei, the representative to the EU and Belgium, said that Belgium is also a small country by the sea, and cultural diplomacy can allow local people to quickly enter Taiwan’s situation. He further compared the food characteristics of the two countries to cultural diplomacy. You must eat mussels in Belgium, just like you can’t go to Taiwan without eating noodle paste. This kind of “tongue touch” can lead to contact with harder and more realistic political issues. Xie Zhiwei emphasized that this is a direct demonstration of Taiwan’s soft power that directly cuts into people’s hearts. Taiwan’s local creative group “Outlying Islands Project” was invited to deliver a keynote speech at Taiwan Culture Day. The live documentary took the audience into the daily lives of Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu, truly presenting the lives of outlying island residents and the situations they face amid geopolitical friction. He Xinjie, co-founder of the “Outlying Islands Project”, told China Central News Agency that Taiwan is not just a single independent island, but also has multiple archipelagos. The “Taiwan, Penghu, Jinma” community constitutes the country of Taiwan. He hopes to start from the story of Taiwan’s outlying islands to let the world better understand Taiwan’s situation and status. She said that Kinmen and Matsu are very close to Xiamen and Fuzhou in terms of cultural life and have their own unique dilemmas; while Penghu’s dilemma is that it is directly facing military pressure. Although I feel reassured by the protection of the national army, I also hope to convey this feeling of “being on the front line” to the people of Taiwan and Belgium. In addition to speeches and documentaries, a market for products from outlying islands was also on site, and many books related to the culture and history of outlying islands were displayed, attracting many foreign people. A Belgian citizen who participated in the event told reporters that he had traveled to Taiwan in the past, but was not very familiar with Taiwan’s outlying islands. After this cultural day event, he became more interested in Taiwan’s outlying islands and would definitely travel there in the future. (Editor: Wei Shu) 1150628 supports the Central News Agency’s choice to stand with the facts. Every sponsorship you make is a small amount of sponsorship to download the Central News Agency’s “First-hand News” APP to grasp the latest news in real time. The text, pictures, and audio and video on this website may not be reproduced, publicly broadcast, or publicly transmitted and used without authorization.
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