Senator Supports Taiwan for Pacific Trade Deal
08/21/2013
Taiwan's capital, Taipei
Welcome back to As It Is from VOA Learning English! I’m Mario Ritter.
Today, we hear about a program in New York City that gives young people a chance to help others and learn what service means.
“It meant a lot because it changed the way I see life and now I see people.”
But first, we look across the Pacific Ocean to East Asia. The United States continues to develop its ties to Asian and Pacific countries. Today we hear a report from Ralph Jennings in Taiwan. He is following an American senator who recently met with business leaders in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei. The lawmaker hopes to create close economic ties with the island, which is both strong economically and has a democratic system of government.
Senator Supports Taiwan for the Trans-Pacific Partnership
A file picture of Senator Robert Menendez.
Robert Menendez of New Jersey has been in the United States Senate since 2006. Mr. Menendez is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He believes the United States should negotiate an investment deal with Taiwan. Such an agreement, he says, would let the island join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an American-led free trade alliance.
Taiwan also wants closer trade and investment ties with the United States. The island’s economic success is strongly dependent on exports to both sides of the Pacific Ocean.
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