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Taiwan will remain competitive in the semiconductor industry in the face of Chinese ambitions, Wang Mei-hua, the island’s minister of economy told CNBC.
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China’s most-senior diplomats … before which he was Asia Editor at Global Trade Review and Trade Correspondent for the International Business Times.
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