President Tsai Ing-wen once again appointed TSMC founder Zhang Zhongmou to represent my country at the APEC Leaders Summit this year.

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[Reporter Lu Yixuan/Bangkok Report] The 2022 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders Summit will be held in Bangkok on Friday and Saturday.

According to the agenda, Chinese President Xi Jinping was invited to deliver a special speech at the CEO Summit at 5:45 pm on the 17th.

It is worth noting that the venue of the meeting happened to be the hotel where the Taiwan delegation stayed, and Zhang Zhongmou, the representative of my country's APEC leader, was also scheduled to arrive at 5 o'clock in the evening of the same day, and the overseas Chinese would welcome the delegation at the gate.

In the past, the Chinese government often made troubles for Taiwan in the APEC arena. This time, the time and place were forced to collide. People in the overseas Chinese community are worried that the CCP will engage in small actions to suppress our delegation through security, traffic control and other means.

APEC is one of the most important multilateral official economic cooperation forums in the Asia-Pacific region. Taiwan participates as a formal member under the name "Chinese Taipei". In addition to the high-profile leaders' meeting in November every year, there are also senior officials' meetings, business advisory committees, and Trade and finance and other ministerial meetings and various sub-forums.

In the past years, China suppressed everywhere, such as arbitrarily obstructing our proposals, or protesting when words such as "national" and "international" appeared in the document, trying to insert the "one-China principle" into the operation of APEC organization, and also let the Other Member States are too upset.

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This year's APEC Economic Leaders' Week (APEC Economic Leaders' Week) will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from the 14th to the 19th. The 15th and 16th will be the Senior Officials' Meeting, the 17th will be the APEC Ministerial Meeting, and the 18th and 19th will be the Economic Leaders' Meeting.

This is also the first time in three years that APEC has held a physical meeting after the outbreak of the global Wuhan pneumonia (COVID-19).

Xi Jinping made his first overseas visit after being re-elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. He had his first face-to-face meeting with US President Joe Biden yesterday. He will attend the G20 meeting today. After his visit to Indonesia, he will transfer to Thailand to attend APEC.

Xi Jinping's trip to Thailand is not only to attend the APEC summit, but also to give a public speech at the APEC CEO Summit and a state visit to Thailand. On Thursday, he is scheduled to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it welcomes and looks forward to Xi Jinping's visit. As the world's second largest economy, China has a major impact on the direction of the Asia-Pacific region, and all walks of life are looking forward to hearing Xi Jinping's views and opinions.

The founder of TSMC, Zhang Zhongmou, is the APEC leader representative for the sixth time this year. Among them, he represented President Chen Shui-bian in 2006 and has represented President Tsai in the meeting four times since 2018. However, the physical meeting was only the PNG summit in 2018, which was then hosted by Chile. Sometimes it was canceled due to riots, and when Malaysia and New Zealand hosted it, it was held online due to the epidemic.

This time Zhang Zhongmou attended the APEC meeting, and his wife Zhang Shufen will also go to Thailand to participate. The dual-ministerial meeting will be attended by Deng Zhenzhong, the chief economic and trade negotiator of the Executive Yuan, and Gong Mingxin, the chairman of the National Development Council. The representative of the Enterprise Advisory Committee (ABAC) is the chairman of Acer Chen Junsheng, Taiwan Mobile General Manager Lin Zhichen and Quanta Chief Technology Officer Zhang Jiayuan.