Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-07-17

The economics ministry is celebrating the growth of economic ties with the target

Deputy Economics Minister Kung Ming-hsin appears in this CNA file photo.

countries of the government’s New Southbound policy. At a forum held with dignitaries from several of these countries, the deputy economics minister outlined just how far these ties have come.

Since 2016, Taiwan has been pushing for closer ties with countries in South and Southeast Asia, as well as Australia and New Zealand, under the New Southbound policy. On Wednesday, the economics ministry celebrated the policy’s successes at the third annual Taiwan-ASEAN-India Strategic Investment Partnership Forum.

Representatives from Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and, for the first time, India, were in attendance.    [FULL  STORY]