hi everyone! welcome back on my channel
my name is Charlotte and today i want to talk about a super positive article,
related to Belgium and Taiwan (you might have heard it already)
i also want to say that the weather is great these days so it's really been affecting my mood
i'm in a really good mood and i've also been trying to plant my own little plants
wait i'm gonna show you
so you know i tried to plant an avocado seed
this is what an avocado seed looks like
it took a really really long time, but now look at this...
i don't know... can you see? it grew some really long roots
and there's something growing out of it so i'm super excited
i also got a lemon seed plant
i just planted two seeds of a lemon and it's going pretty well so i'm excited
but okay, let's go back to what matters because
i don't know why i suddenly started to talk about my plants
so the title of the article is "Belgium's support for Taiwan reflects friendly bilateral relations"
the ministry of foreign affairs stated friday
that Belgium has shown support for Taiwan three times in eight months
which signifies the strong relations between the two countries
i don't know why i get so happy whenever i hear Taiwan and Belgium having a good relationship
because i really care about... i mean of course Belgium, that's my country
but i really care about Taiwan and i really like that Belgium is showing their support for Taiwan
MOFA (the ministry of foreign affairs) issued a press release friday evening stating that
the Belgium senate had passed a resolution to strengthen Taiwan's international status
with 49 votes in favor, zero against (that's a big deal!) and five abstentions earlier that day
the resolution requires the belgian government to bolster relations with Taiwan through the EU
so it can help Taiwan participate in international organizations
such as the world health organization, international civil aviation organization
and united nation framework convention on climate change
as you might know, Taiwan has been excluded from many very important international organizations
especially the world health organization is something i talked about in recent videos,
how it's crazy that Taiwan is such a leading example when it comes to fighting against Covid
but still, Taiwan wasn't allowed to participate and share all their knowledge with the WHO
i thought that was so crazy and it didn't make any sense
so i'm very very happy that Belgium,
with 49 votes were all in favor to let Taiwan participate in the future
of these international organizations
and zero votes against. how cool is that?!
additionally, the Flemish parliament passed a legislation
requesting that the Flemish government take action and cooperate with the EU
in order to promote regional peace and stability in cross-trade relations,
support Taiwan's democracy and freedom
as well as its meaningful participation in international organizations
and deepen bilateral economic, cultural and academic exchanges between the EU,
Flanders and Taiwan
so that's something i can only be cheerful about
the article ends by saying that "the ministry of foreign affairs pointed out that
the three government institutions in Belgium have shown firm support for Taiwan three times
within eight months with tangible actions which reflects the friendly and warm bilateral relations
between Taiwan and Belgium
so basically Belgium is giving a big hug to Taiwan
let me give you a hug
i really hope that they will follow up on their words and also take actions
to make sure that Taiwan is included to share all their knowledge and their wisdom
i mean Taiwan has so much to offer and to share so i think this is a really really awesome article
i'm so excited about this so i'm curious to know what you think about this
it is time to read some of your comments on the previous video
that video was about Taiwan being the best democracy of 2020 in Asia
let's see...
Terry Lynn says happy year of the ox come to Taiwan again please
i want to!!
but let's see and wait, whenever we can travel
because as you might know, Belgium still has some kind of travel ban
i mean, for Belgium citizens, we aren't even allowed to travel in Europe!
so that's really extreme, right now, we are in another lockdown
you know, everything is closed: schools, hairdressers, restaurants, cafes, ...
only essential stores are open right now
and other stores, you can only go there if you make an appointment
so i think my travel to Taiwan won't be anytime soon
it's crazy because it's been a year now that i was planning to go back to Taiwan
but it's just never happening because of this stupid virus
so yeah, i'll come back whenever it's possible. hopefully sooner than later
i see that there's many comments about the peanut soup because in the previous video,
i said that i wasn't sure if Taiwanese peanut soup should be eaten cold or hot
but after reading many comments i guess both are possible
that's pretty cool
so apparently in summer you have it as a cold snack
and in winter you can have it as some kind of hot drink
so that's good to know, thank you for the advice
there is a comment from kev c:
"just wondering did you notice that your title was in simplified Chinese?
just in case you didn't know we used traditional Chinese in Taiwan"
oh i'm so sorry i know! but the super annoying thing is that
i myself can't um read speak or write traditional Chinese yet
(or simplified as well) not anything
i can speak some languages, don't think i'm lazy please!
i speak Dutch and French and English and some Italian
and then i learned some Korean when i was living there
but i haven't been able to master a lot of traditional Chinese yet
in the meantime, i have a really good friend who's helping me
but you know, he's also working full-time and and we're both busy
so i'm so sorry if sometimes a little mistake slips by and google translate is so messy
i don't know if you ever tried to translate
a text from English to traditional Chinese in google translate
but it will get so many things wrong unfortunately so my sincere apologies
i never intend... i never want to offend anyone
so if you see simplified Chinese ever in my subtitles or my titles
just tell me in a comment and hopefully i can change it really fast
but thank you Kev for telling me so that i could quickly change this title, thanks!
so that was it for today's video
i hope you enjoyed this article as much as i did
i think this was really awesome news, it made me so cheerful
i think it's time to go out and enjoy the last ray of sunlight here in Belgium
because we're usually a very gloomy country with a lot of rain
but these days, it's just so sunny, i'm so happy!
oh but before you go let's choose a password
since i showed you my avocado plant, let's say "avocado" is the password
if you type "avocado" in the comments,
i know that you are one of the rare people who sticked around until the end of the video
so that's really awesome! thank you so much from the bottom of my heart
and i hope to see you very soon in the next video
bye bye ~
oh, and don't forget to like and subscribe
bye ~