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The Chinese military said it had “successfully completed” the exercises and “comprehensively tested” the capabilities of multiple units under actual combat conditions.
Taiwan and the US began talks last year over the US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade, and on Thursday, Washington proposed a trade deal text to streamline border procedures and ‘cut red tape’ for shipments of goods.
China banned shipments of chilled white hairtail and frozen horse mackerel in August after finding traces of coronavirus on packaging, but said on Wednesday it had lifted the restrictions to ‘promote the healthy development of cross-strait trade’.
Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council will work with other government departments to increase training, develop and attract talent from abroad, add new funds and ‘ventures’ and upgrade key research facilities.
Taiwan’s economy was hit by a triple whammy in January: a fifth straight month of contracting export orders, a slowdown in factory output and an increase in furloughed workers.