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Taiwan Crucial Partner in EU's Indo-Pacific Strategy: Trade Official
臺灣是歐盟印太戰略的重要夥伴：貿易官員
內文：
A senior European Union trade official said Thursday that Taiwan is crucial
to the EU in its new Indo-Pacific strategy.
Director general of the European Council's Directorate General of Trade
Sabine Weyand said in a virtual keynote address at the annual EU Investment
Forum that the world is now facing "unprecedented challenges" due to climate
change and digital transformation.
crucial to：至關重要
Indo-Pacific：印度─太平洋；印太
Director general：署長
Directorate General of Trade：貿易總署
virtual：虛擬的
keynote address：主題演講
preliminary：初步的
bilateral：雙邊的
Weyand added that Taiwan and the EU share similar democratic values and close
economic and trade relations.
She said the EU should start preliminary talks soon with Taiwan on a
bilateral investment agreement.
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NKorea Fires Unidentified Projectile
北韓發射不明飛行物
內文：
South Korea's military says North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile
to its eastern waters.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff today did not immediately say what the
North fired or how far the weapon flew.
Nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang have stalled for more
than two years over disagreements in exchanging the release of crippling
U.S.-led sanctions against North Korea and the North's denuclearization
steps.
unidentified：不明的
projectile：飛行物、飛行物體
Joint Chiefs of Staff：聯合參謀總部
to stall：停滯
crippling：嚴厲的（severe）
denuclearization：無核化
disagreement：分歧
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to strengthen his nuclear deterrent
(威懾) since his diplomatic fallout with then-President Donald Trump.
The north has been ramping up its weapons tests since September while making
conditional peace offers to Seoul, reviving a pattern of pressuring South
Korea to get what it wants from the United States.
Kim Jong Un：金正恩
to vow：誓言
deterrent：威懾（英文解釋：a thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something.）
fallout：不良影響，惡果（the unpleasant results or effects of an action or event）
to ramp up：加大（to increase the speed or power）；例句：If a business ramps up its activity, it increases it.（公司擴大，業務增加。）
to revive：重新形成（to restore, rebound, reconstruct, re-establish）。