<strong>Yen Ching-chang (顏慶章):</strong> The GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the predecessor to the WTO] was signed on Oct. 30, 1947. In its many drafts, it clearly stated that governments entering under the name “separate customs territory” essentially lack national sovereignty, so when Taiwan applied to enter the GATT on Jan. 1, 1990, it used the name “the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu.”
Looked at another way, Taiwan had no way to compete with China due to international circumstances at the time, forcing the nation to minimize itself by applying not under its official title, but
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