The Diplomat
Ambassador José María Liu will soon step down from his post at the head of the Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei, which he has held since November 2018.
For more than four and a half years, the representative of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in Madrid has been very active, especially since rumours began to grow about a possible intervention by the Beijing regime on the island and in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
On 10 October, during Madrid’s celebration of Taiwan’s National Day, the ‘Double Ten’, Liu stated that “the repercussions of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be far greater than those caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He explained that his country “has become the leading global supplier and the key part of the world’s chip supply chain”, with 63 per cent of the world market.
A few days later, in a Tribune for The Diplomat, Ambassador Liu stressed that since he took office, he had received the backing and support of the Spanish legislature for the improvement of bilateral relations, such as the approval in the Spanish Congress of Deputies of a non-legislative proposal on the tense situation in the Taiwan Strait, in which the Parliament expressed “its opposition to any unilateral action that undermines the status quo in the Taiwan Strait”. Liu said that the aforementioned Proposition, approved in the Foreign Affairs Committee on 6 October, added that the Congress of Deputies “reiterates that the relationship between China and Taiwan should be developed constructively through dialogue, without coercion and on the basis of the will of the people”.
During his stay in our country, José María Liu has made numerous trips around Spain to make the reality of Taiwan known.
