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提醒：這篇很長，翻譯有誤請提醒。

 By Nick Aspinwall | April 9, 2020, 9:16 AM

臺灣正在向世界輸出它在冠狀病毒方面的成功
Taiwan Is Exporting Its Coronavirus Successes to the World

儘管被世界衛生組織拒之門外，臺灣在很大程度上成功地控制了冠狀病毒。即使它面臨着
第二波感染，它也在幫助其他國家——並在這個過程中增強它的軟實力。
Despite being shut out of WHO, Taiwan has largely succeeded in containing the
coronavirus. Even as it faces a second wave of infections, it is helping
other countries—and bolstering its soft power in the process.


TAIPEI—Taiwan has won global praise for its response to the coronavirus
pandemic. As the world closes borders and enforces quarantines to combat the
outbreak, leaders are looking to Taipei for a model to emulate—and,
increasingly, for help.


On March 19, Taiwan closed its borders to nonresidents amid a second wave of
imported cases among travelers returning from abroad. The self-governing
island now has 379 COVID-19 cases, a number that has remained relatively low
due to a series of aggressive containment, quarantine, and monitoring
measures that have limited local transmission of the coronavirus.



Taiwan, which is not part of the World Health Organization (WHO), decided to
screen all passengers from Wuhan starting on Dec. 31, the same day it learned
of the then-unknown virus in the Chinese city. Days later, the WHO was first
warned that the virus appeared to transmit by direct human-to-human contact—
a statement that was ignored. Taiwan’s 23 million citizens have taken
precautions but have refrained from panic, confident in the centralized and
consistent flow of information from Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center
—set up in immediate response to the virus—and countries such as New
Zealand and Israel have said they will use Taiwan’s response to influence
their own.


Most of the world, however, was not as proactive as Taiwan in preparing for
the coronavirus outbreak. The United States and Europe are scrambling to
contain the pandemic as global cases exceed 1.4 million. The Philippines,
Taiwan’s southern neighbor, is reeling from an outbreak in Manila that has
left its hospitals overburdened, its outlying provinces vulnerable, and its
population panicked; other South and Southeast Asian countries are struggling
to contain their own outbreaks. For these countries, it’s too late to
implement the Taiwanese model; they must rapidly test and treat patients.


But it is not too late for Taiwan to help. Last month, President Tsai Ing-wen
said on Twitter that Taiwan is “willing to contribute our capabilities to
better protect human health around the world.” On April 1, Taiwan announced
it would donate 10 million masks to the United States, 11 European countries,
and its diplomatic allies. Taiwan’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that a
second batch of six million masks would be donated to countries in Asia,
Europe and the Americas.

“臺灣可以利用我們的資源幫助這些國家，”臺灣民進黨(Democratic Progressive
Party)立法委員王定宇表示。
“Taiwan can, using our resources, help these countries,” said Wang Ting-yu,
a legislator with Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party.

王是立法院外交委員會委員，也是臺灣推特標籤“臺灣援助”聲量最大的用戶之一。這

Wang, who sits on the legislature’s foreign affairs committee, is one of
Taiwan’s most vocal adopters of the Twitter hashtag #TaiwanCanHelp.
Originally a rallying cry to allow Taiwan to participate in international
organizations (including WHO) that stubbornly exclude it at the behest of
Beijing, the phrase is now often attached to stories of Taiwan’s success in
combating the coronavirus. And while Taiwan is committed to protecting its
own population first—experts fear cases could spike again due to the large
number of residents returning to Taiwan in the past month—it is striving to
provide assistance.


There’s an added benefit as well: Taiwan is eager to strengthen its
bilateral relationships after Beijing has pushed it out of global dialogues
and poached many of its diplomatic allies, leaving Taipei with only 15. It’s
an opportunity for the Tsai administration to pursue its goals of building a
diplomatic network for Taiwan on its own, outside the confines of its ties
with China.

“我們不能自私，”王說。“我們需要儘快合作。”
“We cannot be selfish,” Wang said. “We need to cooperate as fast as
possible.”

上個月，臺北與美國駐臺灣代表處達成了一項雙邊協議，允許向美國運送口罩。王希望這
個協議能很快在其他國家複製。
Last month, Taipei forged a bilateral agreement with the U.S. representative
office in Taiwan that would allow masks to be sent to the United States. Wang
hopes the agreement is soon replicated with other countries.

丹佛大學衛生政策研究員王智弘說，臺灣還可以協助其他國家物流和操作,生產和

的124項行動，其他國家可以從中挑選，其中包括在機場進行篩查和強制實施14天隔離。

Taiwan can also assist other nations with logistics and operations,
allocation of production and resources, and the use of data for tracking
potentially infected individuals and contact tracing to prevent further
spread, said the Stanford Health Policy researcher C. Jason Wang, who
co-wrote a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The article contains a list of 124 actions Taiwan took to combat the outbreak
that other countries can pull from, including screening at airports and
enforcement of mandatory 14-day quarantines.
(心得：124項？我們台灣自己都不知道我們做了那麼多。)

臺灣和美國一樣，是一個要處理猖獗的網路虛假信息的民主國家。與美國不同的是，它
對明確、統一信息的承諾使公衆對官方政策和戰略保持了很大的信心。即便
是通常存在爭議的監測程序和傳播有關冠狀病毒的虛假信息的懲罰措施，也基本上逃過
了公衆的嚴格審查。公衆對政府控制疫情的能力充滿信心。
（譯按： 就是 #相信黨 #相信政府 的意思）
Taiwan, like the United States, is a democracy that deals with rampant online
misinformation. Unlike the United States, its commitment to clear, unified
messaging has kept the public largely confident in official policy and
strategies. Even normally controversial monitoring procedures and penalties
for spreading false information about the coronavirus have largely escaped
harsh scrutiny among a public largely confident in its government’s ability
to contain the outbreak.

“臺灣使用了戰爭的語言和術語，”奧勒岡州立大學公共衛生與人類科學學院教授紀駿輝
說。“這種心態帶來了極端的政策。” (譯按：也就是防疫如同作戰的意思）
“Taiwan used the language and terminology of fighting a war,” said Chunhuei
Chi, a professor at Oregon State University’s College of Public Health and
Human Sciences. “With that mentality came extreme policy.”


World leaders are realizing their benefits. Israel said last month that it
would emulate Taiwan’s monitoring of potential patients. New Zealand Prime
Minister Jacinda Ardern also said her country was “going to follow, pretty
closely, the Taiwanese model.”


https://i.imgur.com/xbI0VAs.png



“This is the soft power of Taiwan,” Chi said, and he is eager for the
Taiwanese government to move from serving as a model to providing active,
direct assistance. Taipei’s open data information-sharing strategy, helmed
by Digital Minister Audrey Tang, has won worldwide admirers and can
potentially be replicated in other areas. The Taiwanese health care system is
equipped to disperse patients to various hospitals and avoid overloading, a
model that can be tailored to an area’s specific needs and facilities.

紀說，拉丁美洲仍然“有時間進行早期計劃和早期部署”，這意味着拉丁美洲可以直接
仿效臺灣最早的一些預防措施，而非洲國家可能由於無法進行試驗而少報。他說，無論情
況如何，現在都是討論的好時機。
Latin America still “has time to do early planning and early deployment,”
 Chi said—meaning it can directly emulate some of Taiwan’s earliest
preventive measures—while African countries may be underreporting due to an
inability to test. Regardless of the circumstances, he said, now is a good
time to talk.


Taiwan has already called over 50 diplomats in Taipei to a conference headed
by its health and welfare minister, said Wang, the legislator, and has
provided direct assistance in diagnosing and curing patients to some of its
15 diplomatic allies. Wang said Taiwan has started to explore ways to provide
remote training to medical staff in Southeast Asian countries including the
Philippines, where doctors and nurses have requested assistance.

姜冠宇,臺灣全球衛生外交協會的負責人,參加了在波士頓與城市衛生官員在最近

Chiang Kuan-yu, the head of the Taiwan Association for Global Health
Diplomacy, participated in a recent video conference with city health
officials in Boston in which medical experts from National Taiwan University
and Kaohsiung Medical University played out community infection scenarios and
advised them on transporting patients between hospitals to prevent
overloading while avoiding further spread of the coronavirus. It’s a lesson
Taiwan learned during the 2003 SARS outbreak, when National Taiwan University
Hospital was overwhelmed by an internal outbreak of SARS and the entire
hospital was quarantined. This event, more than any other, inspired Taiwan to
ensure its hospital network would be equipped to handle a future viral
outbreak.


Chiang and his group, which is made up of medical professionals researching
Taiwan’s international engagement, have sidestepped the ban on Taiwanese
participation in the annual World Health Assembly by setting up an exhibition
outside and meeting with WHO officials in the Geneva train station. “We have
experience we can share with other countries, collaborate with other
countries,” said Chiang, who is planning a videoconference to coincide with
this year’s assembly should it occur.

台北雙邊協議可能是更正式合作的自然起點。自2016年蔡英文就職以來，美國政

強。波士頓Servier Pharmaceuticals首席執行長David Lee(譯按：勇士隊退休那位？XD）

說，臺灣和美國在製藥領域也有很長的合作歷史。
The bilateral Taiwan-U.S. agreement may be a natural starting point for more
formal cooperation. The U.S. government has built strong ties with Taiwan
since Tsai took office in 2016. Both Taipei and Washington share a skepticism
of Beijing that, for Taiwan, was only reinforced when the WHO ignored
warnings of human-to-human transmission until China confirmed it on Jan. 20,
two weeks later. Taiwan and the United States also have a long history of
cooperation in the pharmaceutical sector, said David Lee, the CEO of
Boston-based Servier Pharmaceuticals.

全球市場上的許多藥物和疫苗都是在臺灣研發的，然後送往美國市場進行臨床試驗。Lee
說:“臺灣有一個非常健康的創新生態系統，有政府的大力支持和對創新和科學的大量
投資。”由於其集中的國家衛生系統，它“可以非常迅速地查看大量數據”，使其成爲少
數幾個能夠有效和快速開發抗病毒藥物和疫苗的地方之一。
Many drugs and vaccines on the global market are developed in Taiwan and sent
to the U.S. market for clinical trials. "Taiwan has a very healthy ecosystem
for innovation [with] big government support and heavy investment in
innovation and science,” Lee said. Because of its centralized national
health system, it “can look at a ton of data very quickly,” making it one
of the few places able to efficiently and rapidly develop antiviral
medications and vaccines.

3月9日，在臺灣最重要的研究機構中央研究院(Academia Sinica)，基因組研究中心

At Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s foremost research institution, researchers at
the Genomics Research Center announced on March 9 that they had successfully
tested new coronavirus antibodies that could be used to create a test kit
that detected the virus in 20 minutes. On April 2, Taiwan’s National Health
Research Institutes said it had developed a rapid testing kit that provided
results in 10 to 15 minutes and would discuss trial production with
businesses this week. Successful mass production of such kits would be
game-changing as the world scrambles to procure more tests, especially those
capable of delivering quick results.

臺灣目前無法出口大部分出口醫療用品，包括個人防護設備，因爲出口禁令是爲了確保國
內供應，而當地製造商已經不堪重負。這使得義大利和菲律賓等國向中國採購必要的用品

Foundation)國際合作部助理研究員尤里· 巴拉爾(Yuri Baral)說。
Taiwan currently can’t export most outbound medical supplies, including
personal protective equipment, due to export bans meant to ensure its
domestic supply, and local manufacturers are already overburdened with
production. This has led countries such as Italy and the Philippines to turn
to China to procure necessary supplies—potentially a gift and a curse, given
the questionable status of China’s own domestic containment, reports in
several countries of faulty rapid testing kits from some Chinese suppliers,
and the terms China applies to medical exports. “In a way, it’s the health
version of debt trap diplomacy,” said Yuri Baral, an assistant research
fellow in the international collaboration department of the Taiwan-Asia
Exchange Foundation.

長期以來，臺灣領導人和衛生專業人士一直對被排除在世界衛生組織之外感到憤怒。冠狀
病毒大流行讓觀察人士，比如丹麥前首相安諾斯· 福格· 拉斯穆森(Anders Fogh

體驗“臺灣人民是如何致力於世界參與和打擊COVID-19”。
Taiwan’s leaders and health professionals have long bristled at its
exclusion from the WHO. The coronavirus pandemic has led observers, such as
former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen in a March op-ed in Time,
to note that its participation in the global health governing body could have
saved lives. On Thursday, Taiwan’s foreign ministry condemned what it called
“groundless” accusations made by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus that racist slurs directed toward him had originated in Taiwan.
Tsai invited Tedros to visit Taiwan to experience “how committed the
Taiwanese people are to engaging with the world and combating COVID-19.”


Taiwan, along with a growing list of nations, is continuing to push for its
participation in the WHO, but, as multiple experts said, there is no time to
wait. As Taiwan faces difficulties formally communicating with national
governments, it has always targeted engagement through NGOs such as the
Taiwan Fund for Children and Families, which provided food to poor children
in Manila prior to its lockdown, and overseas business groups, which are
donating masks to Philippine hospitals.


As countries around the world reel from the pandemic, Taiwan does have one
ace up its sleeve: trust. Wang, the legislator, hopes that Taiwan’s
transparency contrasted with doubts around China’s data will encourage other
countries to reach out to Taipei for help. “We lost lives 17 years ago,” he
said, referring to the SARS outbreak. “Now we know how to face this kind of
disaster.”


Chi views Taiwan’s success in containing COVID-19 despite its exclusion from
the WHO as a positive. “Taiwan should stay outside [WHO] and show the world
how great it has been doing,” he said. “Taiwan has a strong reputation now.
This is a good time for Taiwan to reach out.”

心得：



還有既然被吹爆，我們就要讓這種情況繼續下去，千萬不要漏氣，這不僅市政府的事，
也是每個國民的事。

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