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Japan on Friday welcomed Taiwan's application to join a trans-Pacific trade pact, citing shared democratic values with the island, which China claims as its own.
China firmly opposes official interactions between any country and the Taiwan region, and firmly rejects Taiwan s accession to any agreement or organization of official nature, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Thursday.