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Article: Taiwan predicts membership in.
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 16, 2000
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan looks forward to joining the World Trade Organization alongside China and believes their joint entry would help greatly to ease tensions between them, Foreign Minister Chen Chien-jen said in an interview.
"There is no question that our relations across the [Taiwan] strait will be better as far as talks go once both of us are in WTO," Mr. Chen told The Washington Times just days before a presidential election that has driven cross-strait tensions to their highest point in years.
Taiwan, whose economy measures up to world standards better than China's, is routinely barred from most international organizations because of ...