Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-12
By: Wendy Lee, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

The government has initiated talks with several countries to the south last week, including Vietnam and Thailand, as part of the ongoing efforts of the government’s “New Southward Policy,” Vice Economics Minister Yang Wei-fuu said Tuesday.

Last week, the Vice Economic Minister led a delegation to visit Vietnam and Thailand, the two Southeast Asian countries, as part of the ongoing efforts of the government’s new policy to go south, which is to make a breakthrough in the nation’s diplomatic situation by expanding trade exchanges with emerging economies in the ASEAN, or the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, as well as in South Asia.

While attending the APEC O2O Summit 2016, the Vice Economic Minister said that the visit to the two Southeast Asian nations last week was to meet with the Taiwanese businesspeople based in these countries, and talk to them about the government’s new outward-oriented economic strategic plan that President Tsai Ing-wen has underscored as “one of the nation’s crucial policies” for the near future.     [FULL  STORY]