International relationsUK, Taiwan clinch investment and energy pacts as minister visits Taipei
Lai lobbies British official to publicly back Taiwan's CPTPP bid
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te meets Douglas Alexander, the U.K.'s minister of state for trade policy and economic security, in Taipei on June 30. (Wang Yu Ching/Office of the President of Taiwan)
TAIPEI -- Britain's first ministerial visit to Taiwan under the current Labour government resulted in three pacts on investment, digital trade and energy, as the two sides moved to deepen economic ties amid uncertainties over China-linked supply chains.