The Ketagalan Forum focusing on the security issues in the Indo-Pacific region is to be held in Taipei on Wednesday next week, featuring speakers including former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley and former Japanese prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release on Tuesday said that 15 politicians, lawmakers and academics from 11 countries would be brought together at this year’s edition of the security dialogue.
Haley, who served as US ambassador to the UN from January 2017 to December 2018 under then-US president Donald Trump, is to give a keynote speech at the one-day event, the ministry said.
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Haley also challenged, but ultimately lost to Trump in this year’s Republican Party US presidential primary.
Noda, a member of the Japanese House of Representatives and Japanese prime minister from 2011 to 2012, and former Slovakian prime minister Eduard Heger are also to deliver keynote speeches at the event, the ministry said.
The forum would feature panel discussions addressing the increasingly visible “gray zone” activities in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, and the impact of disinformation on democratic systems, it said.
Participants would exchange ideas and explore ways to bolster economic resilience and promote the stability of global semiconductor supply chains, it added.
The event is to be cohosted by the ministry and the Prospect Foundation, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs-affiliated think tank based in Taipei.
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