The News Lens
Date: 2017/11/02
By: Gerald Chan

Hong Kong and China are teaming up to partner on the One Belt, One Road initiative

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and its promise of opening access to lucrative new Central Asian markets, so why not Taiwan?

In her maiden policy address on Oct. 2017, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, made a pointed reference to China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) Initiative. She said that Hong Kong would sign an agreement with the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s state planning agency responsible for implementing OBOR. This would allow Hong Kong to play an active, integral part in the initiative rather than to participate as a solo, detached entity.

Can Taiwan join in to take part in the OBOR initiative, if it wants to? How can it do so?
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