Reviewing some sets of literature on people-to-people relations between Taiwan and SEA countries. The relationship on this issue has no longer "Chinese Affair". It means the ethnic Chinese community in SEA has no longer considered as the main driving factor of this relationship.
People-to-people: Taiwanese business in Southeast Asia, students, migrant workers, and foreign brides from Southeast Asia. There has been a shift from cultivating interests of ethnic Chinese community to the local/indigenous Southeast Asian.
This shifting is not only in statistical number but also on both sides of social interactions.
Considering this shift then there should be some adjustments on the policy of both sides (Taiwan-SEA). As nurturing people-to-people would require more understanding with different cultural, language, etc.
There are needs on both sides to set up centres of learning (language, cultural, etc) in order to create better understanding. Then the questions: how many centres that have been set up so far? Are these centres really have a close touch-up with the people's needs?
Or these centres only served as an 'exclusive' institution built/supported by the govt to cultivate the govt interest?
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