Some years later, when I was a European Union commissioner, after we had negotiated World Trade Organization membership with both the People’s Republic and Taiwan, we wanted to set up an EU office in Taipei to monitor the island’s compliance with the WTO’s rules. Before doing so, I made a point of telling the Chinese government what we were doing – opening a commercial regulator, not an embassy.
几年后我担任欧盟委员期间，在分别与中华人民共和国和台湾进行世界贸易组织成员资格谈判后，我们希望在台北开设一个欧盟办事处，监督台湾遵守世贸组织规则的情况。在此之前，我向中国政府告知我们正在做什么——我们开设的是一个商业监管机构，不是大使馆。