Taiwan-Canada Investment Pact One Step Closer to Becoming Reality
Canada and Taiwan have completed negotiations for a new bilateral foreign investment deal, which the two countries say will be signed after a legal review.
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00:00 Canada and Taiwan have moved closer to signing a new bilateral foreign investment deal.
00:06 The two countries say all that remains is a legal review of the pact, which has been
00:10 under negotiation for about nine months.
00:13 Taiwan's been seeking more trade deals with Western countries like Canada amid growing
00:17 economic, military and political pressure from China, which claims Taiwan as its own.
00:23 Meanwhile, Canada is set to host the CPTPP next year.
00:27 That's a major Pan-Pacific free trade pact, which both Taiwan and China have applied to
00:33 join.
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