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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, no one can deny the importance of closer trade relations between the European Union and Taiwan. Yet, surely they must be aware of the well-known and delicate question, which the Commissioner also mentioned, of institutional relations between the countries officially known as the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China, with whom the European Union and all the Member States maintain steady diplomatic relations.
Furthermore there is no doubt that the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement signed in 2010 between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China will help to overcome the consequences of the territorial and political separation of ‘One China’ and will facilitate better trade discipline between the European Union and Taiwan.
Trade relations between us and the fourteenth largest global trade partner, the European Union’s seventh largest trade partner, can only improve, even though they require new regulations to eliminate the current barriers, in particular non-tariff and linguistic barriers, of a market that is still locked in the multilateral framework of the World Trade Organisation, which Taiwan has been a member of since 2002.
As I have already mentioned, however, the principle difficulties concern relations with the People’s Republic of China. While we must address the issue of maintaining a dialogue with all parties, yet politically recognise a ‘One China’, we must ensure that the two Chinas do not turn the current triangular trade into veritable triangulation which could put the European Union at a trade disadvantage, as has already happened with other East Asian trade partners such as Korea."@en1
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