Guessing the comment was made in frustration more than anything, but please allow me a little rant!
In my experience, every time possible Tang has stood up for the foreign resident community. She is fighting for you, and on record supporting a number of important issues - including easier access to citizenship.
Governments work in a certain way, and highly visible public methods can sometimes set back causes. Tang is incredibly intelligent and I think deserves the benefit of the doubt here.
For example, I was in a meeting with $government on Thursday, talking about MoI changed the ID Number format . The officials had already been contacted by Minister Tang, who had done a great job of representing the position of the foreign resident. You’d never know it, since it’s not in the news like these videos, but I can confirm it’s happening where it needs to. At least for the departments I work with
Her role is very symbolic if you are aware of the process and R&R (role and responsibility) assigned to her in the government system. I had plenty of chats with other Minister w/o Portofolios (not just this government) and to resolve couple of issues mentioned here, you really need to talk to some other stakeholders as well.
a) news conferences held by this or that political party, or NGO, or whatever; or
b) something they found on facebook.
It’s hard to see the backstory and some of the hard work that goes on to set policy or to adjust it. But watching the broader contours in policy change, there’s no doubt in my mind that this is the most progressive government I’ve seen since I moved here in the early 2000s—and Audrey is part of that.
under intense pressure from Beijing - could be seen as being at odds with Washington’s “one-China” policy, which avoids taking a position as to whether Taiwan is part of China, the sources said.
That presenter is just so well spoken, how did they find her?
As for the digitalisation, why a government push? Doesn’t the market normally figure itself out with this sort of electronic payment infrastructure? Or is the government providing the rails? (The push would make sense if this is the case).
