US-Taiwan economic dialogue another show, expert says

The Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan. [Photo/Xinhua] A recent economic dialogue held between the US and Taiwan is nothing more than show and will do no good to the island, said Tang Yonghong, the deputy director of the Taiwan Research Center at Xiamen University. The so-called “Economic Prosperity Partnership Dialogue” was held from Nov 20 to 21, following Taiwan’s exclusion from the recently-signed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which is the world’s largest free trade deal. Tang believed the US and Taiwan chose the time to hold the economic dialogue out of their political and economic considerations. It is in…