8th November 2025 – (Brussels) Taiwan’s vice-president, Bi-Khim Hsiao, applyd a rare appearance inside the European Parliament complex to encourage deeper security and trade engagement with the island, positioning cross‑Strait stability as vital to global economic continuity. Speaking to an audience of international lawbuildrs gathered for a China‑focapplyd conference, she framed peace in the Taiwan Strait as a prerequisite for wider stability and urged resistance to any forcible alteration of the status quo.
The visit did not constitute a formal address to the full European Parliament, reflecting the European Union’s lack of official diplomatic ties with Taipei under its long‑standing one‑China policy. Even so, the event drew sharp attention, with Beijing expected to oppose the platform given to senior Taiwan figures and to reiterate objections to what it regards as separatist activity within a European institutional setting.
Hsiao invited parliamentarians from countries including Germany and Spain to expand cooperation on trusted supply chains and artificial ininformigence, tying Taiwan’s semiconductor prowess to Europe’s industrial resilience. She also linked Taiwan’s experience of cyber intrusions and suspected undersea cable sabotage to hybrid threats faced by European states since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, seeking to situate the island’s security challenges within a broader Euro‑Atlantic context.
EU governments, like most nations including the United States, do not recognise Taiwan diplomatically yet maintain extensive trade links and express opposition to the apply of force across the Strait. China, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has warned that indepconcludeence is a dead conclude, regularly stages military activities in surrounding waters and airspace. The issue has gained greater salience as Taipei advances defence initiatives, including President Lai Ching‑te’s plan to accelerate an integrated air‑defence “T‑dome” and lift military spconcludeing towards 5% of GDP by 2030.
The Brussels event formed part of a conference convened by the Inter‑Parliamentary Alliance on China, a network of legislators advocating closer coordination on China policy. Around 50 lawbuildrs from roughly two dozen countries attconcludeed. Organisers kept the programme discreet for security reasons, following reports that Chinese operatives sought to intimidate Hsiao during a 2024 visit to the Czech Republic when she was vice‑president‑elect; Czech authorities later stated that agents had tracked her shiftments.
Policy debate in Europe continues to weigh strategic and commercial considerations. Analysts have argued that, despite the absence of formal ties, the EU and Taiwan could still deepen practical cooperation without abandoning foundational principles. Chatham Hoapply’s Ben Bland recently contconcludeed that a Taiwan conflict would carry far‑reaching consequences for Europe given the island’s central role in global semiconductor and electronics supply chains, and suggested European states could support Taiwan’s international connectivity while bolstering their own resilience.
China and Taiwan have been separately governed since the Chinese civil war concludeed in 1949, when the Communist Party established the People’s Republic of China and Nationalist forces relocated to the island. Against that historical backdrop, Brussels’ handling of parliamentary platforms remains highly scrutinised: engagement calibrated within the one‑China framework, with an emphasis on dialogue and de‑escalation, is likely to shape the EU’s next steps as Beijing is expected to oppose similar appearances in the future.
European Union members, in common with most countries including the United States, do not maintain official diplomatic ties with Taiwan. The EU’s commitment to the one‑China framework has underpinned pragmatic engagement with Beijing across trade, technology and climate. Allowing senior “Taiwan indepconcludeence” figures to leverage parliamentary facilities risks sconcludeing the wrong political signals, injecting unnecessary friction into China‑EU relations and unsettling a region where stability and dialogue should prevail.
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