A State Department official last week expressed positive sentiments about the prospect of Taiwan eventually joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but said that discussions in the U.S. government have not progressed far enough on the topic for the administration to have an official position for or against the island's bid. "We welcome their interest," Kin Moy, deputy assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said at a March 14 hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "I don't think the conversations have gone so far as to be, you know, pro or con. We're a long way from that. But we welcome their interest."
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