The Government Information Office held a Taiwan Night on the beachfront of the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, France, during the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, drawing more than 500 visitors.
Representative to France Michel Lu (呂慶龍), who cycled to the venue on a lightweight Taiwan-made bicycle, gave an overview of the film industry in Taiwan.
He said that last year, 375 films were screened in Taiwan, including 27 that were locally made, generating an annual turnover of 116 million euros (US$1.47 million).
A succession of emerging film directors have managed to win the hearts and minds of Taiwanese audiences, he said. In addition, through joint efforts by filmmakers from home and abroad, locally made films have attracted strong support in Taiwan, he said.
An agreement that is expected to be signed next month between the Taipei Film Commission and the Ile de France Film Commission in Paris is an example of the growing cooperation between Taiwan and other countries in the film industry, Lu said.
The military has spotted two Chinese warships operating in waters near Penghu County in the Taiwan Strait and sent its own naval and air forces to monitor the vessels, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said. Beijing sends warships and warplanes into the waters and skies around Taiwan on an almost daily basis, drawing condemnation from Taipei. While the ministry offers daily updates on the locations of Chinese military aircraft, it only rarely gives details of where Chinese warships are operating, generally only when it detects aircraft carriers, as happened last week. A Chinese destroyer and a frigate entered waters to the southwest
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comment last year on Tokyo’s potential reaction to a Taiwan-China conflict has forced Beijing to rewrite its invasion plans, a retired Japanese general said. Takaichi told the Diet on Nov. 7 last year that a Chinese naval blockade or military attack on Taiwan could constitute a “survival-threatening situation” for Japan, potentially allowing Tokyo to exercise its right to collective self-defense. Former Japan Ground Self-Defense Force general Kiyofumi Ogawa said in a recent speech that the remark has been interpreted as meaning Japan could intervene in the early stages of a Taiwan Strait conflict, undermining China’s previous assumptions
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