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(Archived document, may contain errors) No. 82 October 27, 1988 THE CASE FOR TAIPEPS MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS INTRODUCTION Its foreign currency reserves were $70.7 billion this July; its Gross National Product nearly topped the $ 100 billion mark last year; and it has the distinction of being one of the world's most prominent trading nations.

Do some nations provide us a higher proportion of criminal aliens to their foreign-born population in the U.S., generally, than other countries? Absolutely. Which nations send us the most criminals on a percentage basis and which send us the least?

Let’s give an example which maybe explains what I’m talking about. Back in the late 1990’s several Australians were very active in the IEEE802.11 working group, these Aussies formed a company (Radiata) and designed one of the first working 802.11a chipsets. The intellectual property behind this was developed several years earlier by the CSIRO and the company combined several experienced semiconductor Industry professionals with a couple of Academics and leveraged this CSIRO knowhow (IP...