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Looming Electoral Disaster Threatens Taiwan’s Tariff Preferences

Without 2010 economic cooperation pact, Taiwan to lose attractiveness as triangular trade hub

Sep 01, 2023
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By: Jens Kastner

With Taiwan’s January presidential and legislative elections dynamics strongly signaling that the anti-unification Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will stay in power and that the presidency will go to the current vice president Lai Ching-te, who is regarded as even more anti-China than the incumbent Tsai Ying-wen, it is increasingly l…

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