Taiwan's National Defense University partners up with Czech counterpart
ROC Central News Agency
04/07/2023 11:52 PM
Taipei, April 7 (CNA) Taiwan's National Defense University (NDU) on Friday said its president traveled to Czech Republic in February to formalize a partnership with the university's counterpart in the Central European country, which could include joint research and regional security evaluations.
In a press release, NDU said it received an invitation from the Czech Republic's university of national defense, Univerzita obrany (UO), in February this year to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish an academic partnership.
In response, the university's incumbent president and former Republic of China Navy Commander Admiral Liu Chih-pin (劉志斌) visited UO in early February to sign the MOU.
According to UO's official website, the university's representative at the signing ceremony on Feb. 16 was its Vice-Rector for External Relations and Internationalization Libor Kutěj, a former deputy chief of Czech military intelligence.
Kutěj and UO's head, Rector-Commandant Zuzana Kročová, subsequently returned a visit to NDU in March, when they traveled to Taiwan as part of a delegation led by Czech parliament's lower house speaker Markéta Pekarová Adamová.
During the visit, Kutěj gave a lecture for high-ranking Taiwanese military officers on China's influence campaign in the Czech Republic over the last 10 years, according to UO.
NDU also said it will be co-organizing international academic symposiums and seminars with UO in the future to boost the knowledge and awareness of international situations and regional security of its students and faculties.
(By Matt Yu, Judy Tseng and James Lo)
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