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Analysis: What Are Taiwan's Lawmakers Doing on Latest U.S. Visit?
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5/1/2025
A group of Taiwan's lawmakers is in the U.S. at a particularly crucial time in the two countries' relationship. The head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's mission in the U.S. shines a light on what the delegation hopes to achieve.
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Visit comes at a time when Taiwan is trying to deal with Trump's tariff on the country,
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which is a potential 32%. Is the purpose of this visit to negotiate trade?
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Right. My understanding is that the legislative delegation is not here to negotiate trade.
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The trade negotiations are under the purview of Taiwan's government and this visit is
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actually part of a long-standing practice of the parliamentary diplomacy.
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So it consists of members of the U.S. caucus and the foreign and national defense committee.
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President Lai has announced the early outset of this tariff negotiation would be led by an
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interagency tax force led by the vice premier, Zheng Li-jun. Both sides started the negotiation
00:53
since April 11th. From what I heard, the discussion has been going well.
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You said this isn't specifically geared towards trade. Historically, what have these parliamentary
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groups, these parliamentary visits to Washington, D.C. been about?
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Many of the touch points between the U.S. and Taiwan delegation of such will likely to engage with
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their congressional counterparts as well as broader Washington's policy community. But I imagine this
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time around, as they say in the media, tariff and maybe security issues will come up in these type of
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discussions. What do you think the U.S. policymakers will be looking to get out of these
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talks or what kind of points would you think they'll be talking about?
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I'll just point out Treasury Secretary Besant mentioned there are 15 to 18 important trading
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partners that the U.S. will prioritize in the trading negotiations and tariff negotiations. And
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Taiwan is the U.S. seven largest trading partner. So we're certainly in that ballpark. Overall, the U.S.
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is looking to reduce trade imbalance reinvigorate U.S. industrial base, which also confirms to Taiwan's
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economic strategy as our major investment and procurement of energy and defense articles are
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already underway.
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