Staff writer, with CNA Visiting Dutch parliamentarian Jan Paternotte yesterday expressed support for upholding freedom of navigation in the Taiwan Strait, one of the world’s busiest commercial waterways, and highlighted its importance to the international community.“This year, the world has experienced why freedom of navigation has not just been established as a legal right for all nations for over 100 years, but why it is pivotal to preserve that freedom for the world’s prosperity and energy security,” Paternotte said while meeting President William Lai (賴清德) at the Presidential Office.He appeared to be referring to Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz, through which around one-quarter of the world’s crude oil and one-fifth of its natural gas transits, after the United States and Isra