Taiwan Legislator: Mainland Chinese E-Commerce Dumping a Threat to National Security

A Taiwanese lawmaker warned that Chinese merchants were impacting local industries and markets via “planned dumping strategies.”

A woman looks at goods on an electronic screen at a T-Mall exhibition during the Singles Day shopping festival in Shanghai on November 11, 2017. STR/AFP/Getty Images

A staggering 80 percent of 38 million packages entering Taiwan in 2017 came from mainland China, raising concerns about e-commerce dumping on a scale that endangers the self-governing island’s national security.

Chen Ying, a lawmaker in the Republic of China (Taiwanese) Legislative Yuan affiliated with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), warned that Chinese merchants were impacting local industries and markets via “planned dumping strategies.”