Not trusting the propaganda of authoritarian China and restricting travel to and from China early on during the COVID-19 pandemic have been key factors in Taiwan’s successful management of the pandemic, one of Taiwan’s top public health officials told The Epoch Times this week. In an exclusive interview at Taipei’s iconic Grand Hotel, Dr. Shiing Jer Twu—Chairman of Taiwan’s Development Center for Biotechnology, former Health Minister of Taiwan, and former Director-General of Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—shared insights into how Taiwan has been able to keep deaths due to COVID-19 below a total of 15 since the beginning of the pandemic. Dr. Twu, who holds a Ph.D. in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles, and degrees in medicine and public health from National Taiwan University, stated that an objective skepticism of authoritarian China and its propaganda has helped democratic Taiwan defend against the CCP (Chinese …