EconomyTaiwan envoy to ask Japan to back island's bid for TPP membership
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Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen's special envoy Morris Chang, former chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., is expected to ask Japan to back the island's bid to join the TPP.
CHENG TING-FANG, Nikkei staff writer
November 9, 2018 17:02 JST
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.