Investing in attracting foreign students to study Mandarin in Taiwan and learn the value of the nation would have a positive diplomatic effect, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) official said. Department of North American Affairs Director-General Douglas Hsu (徐佑典) made the remark in an interview with the Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper) more than one year after the US-Taiwan Education Initiative was launched in December 2020. Within the past year, MOFA, the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Overseas Community Affairs Council launched the Taiwan Huayu Bilingual Ex...