TOKYO—President Joe Biden on Monday is expected to come out with a list of nations that will join the Indo-Pacific trade pact, but Taiwan won’t be among them.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan confirmed that Taiwan isn’t among the governments signed up for the launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, a pact that’s meant to allow the United States to work more closely with key Asian economies on issues like supply chains, digital trade, clean energy, and anticorruption. The U.S. president is slated to highlight the launch of the framework as he meets Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday.
