President Tsai Ing-Wen video speech at EFTA's seminar

How do you, native English speakers find this speech?

In my humblish opinion:

  1. She was reading from cue cards or a teleprompter
  2. The speech was either translated or heavily revised by a native (likely bilingual) speaker
  3. Edits and cuts were utilized extensively to make the resulting video more fluent
  4. The reference to her foreign PhD dissertation was superfluous in every way possible
  5. The speech was designed to tiptoe around the major issue: independence
  6. What place does Taiwan have in the EU? Why even mention it?
  7. It’s drivel that nobody of any substance will ever hear.
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