The second round of negotiations on the Taiwan-US 21st Century Trade Initiative will be held in Taipei today.

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[Central News Agency] The Taiwan-US 21st Century Trade Initiative will hold the second round of negotiations in Taipei today. Scholars believe that the United States has come to Taiwan for talks, highlighting that Taiwan’s status in the eyes of the United States is not the same; in addition, the Indo-Pacific economic structure The next negotiation should be held in February, and the U.S. may hope to speed up the Taiwan-U.S. negotiations to provide a demonstration.

Taiwan and the United States will launch the "Taiwan-US 21st Century Trade Initiative" on June 1, 2022, and start negotiations on August 18 of the same year. The second round of negotiations will be held in Taipei from January 14 to 17 this year. illustrate.

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Yan Huixin, deputy executive director of the WTO and RTA Center of the Chinese Academy of Economics, pointed out that there should be three major considerations for starting the second round of negotiations at this time. First, Taiwan expressed last year that it hopes to have the opportunity to start the second round of negotiations at the end of last year. Negotiations started at the beginning of this year, showing that the United States has responded favorably to Taiwan's demands.

At the same time, Yan Huixin mentioned that the Taiwan government has always emphasized that the Taiwan-US 21st Century Trade Initiative negotiation is a new historical high in Taiwan-US economic and trade relations. Such a positioning must be fully responded by the US side. Negotiations with Taiwan can indeed demonstrate the significance of the government's so-called "bilateral economic and trade relations hitting a new high."

Second, starting the second round of negotiations at this time should take into account the pace of US policy.

Yan Huixin pointed out that the Office of the United States Trade Representative has just completed the bilateral economic and trade dialogue with India recently. The method is in progress, choose a similar time point to start the dialogue synchronously.

Third, Yan Huixin mentioned that the next negotiation of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), which is also led by the Office of the United States Trade Representative, should be held in February; There are actually a large number of and highly overlapping issues in the regularity of the economic structure.

Yan Huixin pointed out that Indo-Pacific economic countries may have more reservations about such high-standard rules and need to make more domestic assessments. To some extent, the US may hope to speed up Taiwan-US negotiations so that other Indo-Pacific economic countries can see When it comes to the outcomes of the talks and what the US expects from its allies, providing a standard for Indo-Pacific economic countries to refer to is meant to be a demonstration.

Yan Huixin believes that the United States used to treat Taiwan with a concept of "top vs. bottom". This time, the US negotiating team came to Taiwan for talks. Under different circumstances, Taiwan should also increase the importance it places on itself.

Yan Huixin further stated that Taiwan should have more expectations of itself. For example, in the negotiation process, it is not to listen to the opinions of the United States unilaterally, but for these rules, Taiwan can take the initiative to put forward its own asking price and requirements.

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