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BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Without its trade with the mainland, Taiwan would have seen a huge trade deficit, and its economy could not maintain positive growth this year, according to a mainland spokesperson on Wednesday. "It is a fact that the mainland is Taiwan's biggest export market and the largest source of trade surplus," said Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council. In the first 11 months of 2020, cross-Strait trade scored 235.69 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 5.4 percent of the mainland's total outbound trade, according to data released by the General...
