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Taiwan deepens trade collaboration with Marshall Islands

Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung led an economic and trade delegation to the Marshall Islands, underscoring government commitment to advancing the Diplomatic Allies Prosperity Project.   Lin, as President Lai Ching-te’s special envoy, was accompanied by Deputy Director General Susan Chi-chuan Hu of the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ International Trade Administration, Deputy Secretary General Alex L.J. Shyy of Taipei City-based International Cooperation and Development Fund, and members of a drone diplomacy working group from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.   The minister met with Hilda C. Heine, president of the Marshall Islands, as well as legislative speaker Brenson Wase and Kalani Kaneko, minister of foreign affairs and trade. The MOFA added that Lin also called on the telemedicine center at the Majuro Hospital in the capital, one of the major achievements of bilateral cooperation.   The ministry said that over 60 trade delegates representing the clean energy, cold chain logistics, fishing, information and communications technologies, medical appliances and shipping sectors, participated in business matching events as part of efforts to expand investment in the allied nation.   The MOFA said that a preparatory advisory meeting was also on the minister’s itinerary to implement an economic cooperation agreement that took effect Jan. 15, 2025, as was a seminar on business opportunities in the Marshall Islands. (POC-E)   Write to Taiwan Today at ttonline@mofa.gov.tw