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Taiwan Must Do Real Free Trade

Taiwan Must Do Real Free Trade
A factory of Taiwanese semiconductors manufacturer TSMC at Central Taiwan Science Park in Taichung, Taiwan on March 25, 2021. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images
Clyde Prestowitz
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Commentary

Taiwan has become perhaps the hottest spot in the world in terms of a potential outbreak of war between it and China, which could potentially also draw the United States, Japan, Australia, India, and much of Southeast Asia into the conflict. Indeed, it could well become another World War of unimagined destruction.

Clyde Prestowitz
Clyde Prestowitz
Author
Clyde Prestowitz is an Asia and globalization expert, a veteran U.S. trade negotiator, and presidential adviser. He was the leader of the first U.S. trade mission to China in 1982 and has served as an adviser to Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama. As counselor to the secretary of commerce in the Reagan administration, Prestowitz headed negotiations with Japan, South Korea, and China. His newest book is "The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership," which was published in January 2021.
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