Outside voices: Congressional nod for Taiwan deal begins to ‘set the record straight’

The U.S.-Taiwan trade agreement, which began life as a politically palatable alternative to Taipei’s aspirations for membership in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, has taken on a life form that “begins a broader conversation about the trade policy the United States should pursue,” one analyst says. It represents, writes Inu Manak , Council on Foreign Relations trade policy fellow, “an important first step to getting U.S. trade policy back on track.” The agreement, reached in May , is a...