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Taiwan and US to launch trade talks


From left, Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu, Executive Yuan spokesman Lo Ping-cheng, Minister Without Portfolio John Deng and Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua attend a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Lee Hsin-fang, Taipei Times

Taiwan and the US yesterday announced that they would commence negotiations on a new trade agreement, dubbed the “Taiwan-US Initiative on 21st-century Trade,” signaling a breakthrough after Taiwan was excluded from a US-led regional trade framework.

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US, Taiwan troops to ‘cooperate’: Tsai


Premier Su Tseng-chang, right, bumps elbows with visiting US Senator Tammy Duckworth at the Executive Yuan in Taipei yesterday.
Photo courtesy of the Executive Yuan

The US National Guard is planning to cooperate with the Taiwanese military, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday, a day after China made its second-largest incursion into the nation’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) this year.

Meeting visiting US Senator Tammy Duckworth at the Presidential Office in Taipei, Tsai said the lawmaker was one of the main sponsors of the Taiwan partnership act, which had received bipartisan support in the US Congress, although it has yet to become law.

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From left, former deputy minister of foreign affairs Michael Kau, National Sun Yat-sen University professor Lin Wen-cheng and former American Institute in Taiwan director William Stanton, yesterday sit on a panel at a forum in Taipei hosted by the Taiwan Forever Association and the International Committee for a Democratic Taiwan.
Photo: Huang Yao-cheng, Taipei Times

US President Donald Trump’s unpredictability makes him “kind of afraid” of what might happen if Trump’s reported meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) next month in the US occurs, former American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) director William Stanton said yesterday.