Let Taiwan Join Interpol

Tsai Tsan-Po

Politics, Asia

And it would benefit everyone.

With transnational crime on the rise, it is imperative that law enforcement agencies worldwide establish mutual links and efficient cooperation. To achieve Interpol’s key aims, such as ensuring and promoting the widest possible mutual assistance between all criminal police authorities, Taiwan must be included. Indeed, Taiwan seeks to work with law enforcement agencies around the world to jointly combat crime, fill gaps in the global security network, and create a safer world through joint cooperation.

Moreover, Taiwan has earned widespread acclaim for its public security. The international community should not exclude Taiwan in the fight against transnational crime.

The Republic of China (Taiwan) is the world’s twenty-second-largest economy and seventeenth-largest exporter, occupying a strategic location connecting Northeast and Southeast Asia. It was named the best place in the world for expats to live in a 2016 online report by Forbes and was ranked thirty-fourth among 163 countries surveyed for the 2018 Global Peace Index by the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace. To preserve its public security in a world increasingly challenged by cybercrime and terrorism, Taiwan must cooperate with global law enforcement agencies.

Taiwan’s exclusion from Interpol creates a gap in intelligence sharing and a loophole for criminal activity.

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