DPP's attempts to seek mainland-Taiwan economic “decoupling” doomed to fail: spokesperson China


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BEIJING, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Cross-Strait trade and commerce benefit Taiwan compatriots and provide bright prospects for Taiwan's development, thus any retrogressive scheme that seeks "economic decoupling" between the mainland and Taiwan is doomed to fail, a mainland spokesperson said Wednesday. Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, made the remarks when asked about such attempts by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority in Taiwan. Mainland customs data showed the cross-Strait trade volume from January to October totaled 209.56 billion U.S. dollars, up 13 percent year on year. Taiwan's exports to the mainland and...