The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Monday urged young people to sign up for its New Generation National Strategic Talent Empowerment Workshop, as party officials outlined plans to train new talent to serve in the fields of international geopolitics and national security.
“Politics is everybody’s business,” DPP Secretary-General Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇) said, quoting Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙), a founder of the Republic of China.
“All Taiwanese, especially the younger generation, should concern themselves with politics,” Hsu said.
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“Everything in the government and national affairs revolves around politics, and the DPP is the party most willing to allow young people to participate, he said, adding that it has put in a lot of effort to cultivate new talent to serve in politics.”
“The workshop aims to teach young people more about Taiwan, to love the country, forge a connection to the homeland, and advocate peace, democracy and economic prosperity for the nation,” he said.
“Taiwan is at the most strategic position in the first island chain,” Hsu said.
“It faces China, which threatens it with military invasion. So we need young people to work together to safeguard the homeland and devise national strategic concepts,” he added.
“The workshop would teach about international situations and how China has been conducting campaigns on many fronts, including cognitive warfare, legal warfare, psychological operations and propaganda and cyberwarfare,” Hsu said.
The four-day New Generation National Strategic Talent Empowerment Workshop would take place at a hotel in Taipei from Jan. 8 to 11, he said.
DPP China Affairs Director Wu Jun-zhi (吳峻鋕) said the workshop would include programs simulating new political and economic situations, as well as computer models of how the government might impose new policies and regulations.
People who are interested can sign up via the DPP’s Facebook page or its China Affairs Department by Dec. 14, Wu said, adding that spaces are limited to 24.
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