TAIPEI -- Taiwan plans to officially ask Japan to endorse its membership in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, as it hopes to arrange a meeting between its special envoy Morris Chang and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of a regional summit to be held in Papua New Guinea mid-November.
Chang is a close adviser to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and the government hopes he will be able to lobby Abe during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Chang is founder and former chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract chipmaker.
