{"id":6821,"date":"2006-04-04T11:35:14","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T18:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/04\/04\/wto-brings-china-and-taiwan-to-bargaining-table-david-lague\/"},"modified":"2006-04-04T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T18:35:14","slug":"wto-brings-china-and-taiwan-to-bargaining-table-david-lague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/04\/wto-brings-china-and-taiwan-to-bargaining-table-david-lague\/","title":{"rendered":"WTO brings China and Taiwan to bargaining table &#8211; David Lague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the International Herald Tribune (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2006\/04\/04\/business\/wto.php\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Lai Shin-yuan, a Taiwan lawmaker, learned last year that a group of towel manufacturers from one of the poorest counties on the island planned to take action under <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_Trade_Organization\">World Trade Organization<\/a> rules to stem a flood of cheap imports from China, she knew it was an opportunity too good to miss.<\/p>\n<p>Not only could she help protect livelihoods at risk; the outspoken <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taiwan_Solidarity_Union\">Taiwan Solidarity Union<\/a> legislator also saw a rare chance to bring China and Taiwan together as equals.<\/p>\n<p>As a top security and trade adviser to Taiwan&#8217;s pro-independence president, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chen_Shui-bian\">Chen Shui-bian<\/a>, before she was elected to Parliament in December 2004, Lai had battled, with limited success, to open channels of communication with the mainland while Beijing remained determined to shun any official contact with the island.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the International Herald Tribune (link) When Lai Shin-yuan, a Taiwan lawmaker, learned last year that a group of towel manufacturers from one of the poorest counties on the island planned to take action under World Trade Organization rules to stem a flood of cheap imports from China, she knew it was an opportunity too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[8354,122],"class_list":["post-6821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-taiwan-trade","tag-wto","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WTO brings China and Taiwan to bargaining table - David Lague<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/04\/wto-brings-china-and-taiwan-to-bargaining-table-david-lague\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WTO brings China and Taiwan to bargaining table - David Lague\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the International Herald Tribune (link) When Lai Shin-yuan, a Taiwan lawmaker, learned last year that a group of towel manufacturers from one of the poorest counties on the island planned to take action under World Trade Organization rules to stem a flood of cheap imports from China, she knew it was an opportunity too [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/04\/wto-brings-china-and-taiwan-to-bargaining-table-david-lague\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-04-04T18:35:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"177\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mo Ming\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mo Ming\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/04\/wto-brings-china-and-taiwan-to-bargaining-table-david-lague\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/04\/wto-brings-china-and-taiwan-to-bargaining-table-david-lague\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mo Ming\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/aef0bcd18439f04715fb3dd47b41f2a1\"},\"headline\":\"WTO brings China and Taiwan to bargaining table &#8211; 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