Progress & Prospect: Taiwan's New Southbound Policy

With the US putting forth its Indo-Pacific Strategy and South Korea announcing its New Southern Policy, Minister Without Portfolio and Office of Trade Negotiations head John Deng (鄧振中) is even more convinced that Taiwan is heading in the right direction with its New Southbound Policy. “Our strategy, goals and areas of interest overlap to a large extent” with those of the US, Deng says. “We’re fortunate that we initiated our policy two years ago, and that we shared the same concerns back then with many other countries.”