Taiwan-China Cross-Strait Tensions

Jason Hsu: Why Taiwan's CPTPP Membership Matters, Resisting Coercion

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Following the recent ascension of the U.K. to the CPTPP, one of the largest trade pacts in the Asia Pacific, Taiwan is asking whether and when it could also join. Despite applying in 2021, Beijing continues to campaign against Taipei’s admission. Jason Hsu, former KMT legislator and senior research fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Harvard Kennedy School, tells Taiwan Talks, how Taiwan’s membership could boost the nation’s economic resiliency, further regionally integrate it, reduce China’s economic coercion, and “tell the world that Taiwan isn’t isolated.“