Taiwan News
By Central News Agency
Date: 2017/11/16
Taipei, Nov. 16 — Premier Lai Ching-te (賴清德) on Thursday urged his Cabinet to make
(By Central News Agency)
every effort to get Taiwan into a revised Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal that 11 countries recently proposed.
Bilateral and multilateral regional cooperation is vital to Taiwan’s economic development, the premier said, giving his Cabinet a directive to start preparing for Taiwan’s bid to join the proposed Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), according to a Cabinet spokesperson.
The CPTPP is a new framework for cooperation, which top trade officials from the 11 remaining member states of the beleaguered TPP endorsed on the sidelines of the 2017 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit last week. [FULL STORY]
