Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/11/14
By: Liao Yu-yang and William Yen
Port Moresby, Nov. 14 (CNA) Taiwan will strive to gather support at this year’s Asia-
Minister without Portfolio John Deng (鄧振中) / CNA file photo
Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit for its efforts to join another regional economic bloc, the country’s top trade negotiator said Wednesday.
Minister without Portfolio John Deng (鄧振中), head of the Office of Trade Negotiations under the Executive Yuan, said arrangements are being made for members of the Taiwan delegation to the APEC summit to hold bilateral talks with representatives from the countries that are currently members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
In addition, National Development Council Minister Chen Mei-ling (陳美伶), who arrived in Papua New Guinea earlier in the day for the APEC ministers meeting, said she and Deng will try to lobby representatives of the CPTPP countries at every opportunity on the sidelines of the APEC meetings.
The CPTPP, which grew out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership after the U.S. walked away from the pact in January 2017, represents a market of 500 million people and accounts for 13.5 percent of global trade. [FULL STORY]
