German politician urges military links with Taipei

Taipei Times
Date: Nov 19, 2019
By:. Lu Yi-hsuan and William Hetherington  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

Germany and Taiwan should conduct military exchanges, which would be more meaningful than

A Facebook post by German lawmaker Ulrich Lechte supporting military exchanges between Germany and Taiwan is pictured yesterday.
Photo: Screen grab from Facebook

exchanges with China, German lawmaker Ulrich Lechte, a member of the Bundestag Committee on Foreign Affairs, said on Sunday.

“The free world should stand together,” the Free Democratic Party lawmaker wrote on Facebook.

The Taipei Representative Office in Germany’s Munich office shared Lechte’s post on its Facebook page, and thanked him for his continuing support of Taiwan.

The German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported that 62 nations, including China, are to receive training from the Bundeswehr, Germany’s military.    [FULL  STORY]

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