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中國的制裁一直避開關鍵的科技業，因台灣的半導體對中國的消費性電子產品供應鏈影響非常大，但也開始發展紅色供應鏈，台灣需要審慎以對，減少
對中國出口的依賴。（圖／達志影像）

include trade facilitation, regulatory practices, Jinping’s heavy-handed rule. China’s close ties
anti-corruption standards, boosting trade between with Russia, which remain strong despite Moscow’s

small and medium-sized enterprises, deepening brutal invasion of Ukraine, have further strained
agriculture trade, lifting discriminatory barriers to the Sino-American relationship. In the shifting
trade, digital trade, and labor and environmental geopolitical landscape, with an emerging
standards. Further, the initiative will explore authoritarian axis of China and Russia on one
“ways to address distortive practices of state- side and the U.S. and its democratic allies on

owned enterprises and non-market policies the other, it is clear Taiwan is an important partner
and practices,” a reference to China’s predatory in the camp of democracies.
mercantilism. Some observers expect that ambivalence
Unsurprisingly, China is circumspect about about free-trade agreements among some

the initiative. Washington should “carefully handle American constituencies could derail the U.S.-
economic and trade relations with Taiwan and Taiwan trade deal. Bloomberg argues an eventual
fully respect China’s core interests,” Shu Jueting, agreement “may end up being more symbolic than
spokeswoman for China’s Ministry of Commerce, substantive.”
said at an August press briefing. Don’t count on it. Both support for Taiwan and
Yet Beijing’s feelings on the matter will not antipathy towards China are at an all-time in the

be the obstacle they would have been in years U.S. Congress. Further, the economic benefits for
past. U.S.-China relations have cratered amid both Taipei and Washington would be significant if
Beijing’s swing to techno-totalitarianism under Xi the agreement significantly lowered tariff barriers

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