Source: RAND Corporation

How the Chinese attack unfolds and how Taiwan responds will be critical to regional assessments of whether to aid Taiwan. Most regional countries do not have official relations with Taiwan. Regional countries are cognizant that China (1) views Taiwan as a core national interest, (2) is set on unification with Taiwan, and (3) views any conflict over Taiwan as an “internal affair.” This is likely to contribute to more caution in regional deliberations to assist Taiwan.

1. Austria: Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Austria
2. Belgium: Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium
3. Czech- Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Prague
4. Denmark: Taipei Representative Office in Denmark
5. Finland: Taipei Representative Office in Finland
6. France: Bureau de Représentation de Taipei en France
7. France : Bureau de Représentation de Taipei en France, Bureau Annexe d’Aix-en-Provence

Tainan 

• Elblag, Poland

Taipei 

• Prague, Czech Republic (2020)
• Riga, Latvia (2001)
• Versailles, France (1986)
• Vilnius, Lithuania (1998)
• Warsaw, Poland (1995)

Taitung

• Debrecen, Hungary

Taoyuan

• Radom, Poland

1. Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIA).
2. Participation of Taiwan as an observer in meetings, mechanisms and activities of international bodies, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).  
3. Economic, scientific, cultural, political and people-to-people exchanges, as well as exchanges with the participation of Member State representatives, including at the most senior levels.

Source: European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs 9/9/2021

France will use its EU presidency in the first half of 2022 to promote its ideas on Europe. Many of the key people in Brussels are sympathetic to France.

Source: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

A massive investigation from more than 600 journalists across the globe sheds new light into the shadowy world of offshore banking — and the high-powered elites who use the system to their benefit.

The exposé, dubbed the "Pandora Papers”, shows how the world's wealthy hide their money and assets from authorities, their creditors and the public using a network of lawyers and financial institutions that promise secrecy.

ICIJ is a  U.S.-based nonprofit with a global network of reporters and media organizations who work together to investigate the most important stories in the world. Its network encompasses 280 of the best investigative reporters from more than 100 countries and territories. It also partners with more than 100 media organizations, from the world’s most renowned outlets, including the BBC, the New York Times, the Guardian and the Asahi Shimbun, to small regional nonprofit investigative centers.

Source: IEA

AUSTRIA

Source: Reuters Institute

Proportion that trusts most news most of the time