Taiwan’s top diplomat says Australia and other Western countries are increasingly looking to learn from the island’s long history with Chinese Communist Party-linked influence and interference as anxiety about similar activities grows across the democratic world.

In an exclusive interview with Fairfax Media, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said democracies should boost co-operation to combat Beijing’s tactics and argued Asian countries had a stake in protecting Taiwan because its fall would start a domino effect that would see them "taken down by China one by one".

As China ramps up efforts to isolate the self-governed island of 23 million citizens from the international community and push it towards accepting unification with the mainland, Dr Wu said the CCP had long sought to influence and divide Taiwanese people using "sharp power" and observed Australia now appeared to be dealing with similar activities.

Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu. Credit:AP

"I think Taiwan and Australia can exchange with each other, to learn the experience from each other so we can deal with Chinese influencing campaigns in a co-ordinated way," Dr Wu said, noting the Australian government's recent crackdown on foreign interference and influence.