【英文】英国际战略研究所报告：台湾、两岸稳定与欧洲安全：影响与应对选择（48页）

英文研究报告 2022年04月20日 06:55 管理员

Since leaving the EU, the United Kingdom has maintained a strong economic relationship with Taiwan and has stated its intention to deepen bilateral ties.60 By the end of Q3 2021, Taiwan was the UK’s 28th largest trading partner compared to the same point the previous year and accounted for 0.6% of total UK trade.61 As with the wider EU–Taiwan trading relationship, Taiwanese exports of goods and services to the UK outweigh the imports from the UK to Taiwan, while the UK had a trade in services surplus of GBP1.5m with Taiwan by Q3 2021. Taiwan is the UK’s 27th largest export market and 31st largest import market of goods and services. While the UK exports mainly beverages, cars, medicinal and pharmaceutical products, chemicals and scientific instruments to Taiwan, it imports mainly telecommunications and sound equipment, metal manufactures, office machinery, consumer manufactures and road vehicles other than cars.

62 Certain EU member states and the UK have pointed to deepening their trade relationship with Taiwan. For example, the UK is already active in Taiwan, holding bilateral dialogues in areas such as ICT, financial services, pharmaceuticals and offshore wind.63 Taiwan’s monopoly on semiconductor research, design and manufacturing, particularly of advanced microchips, is particularly interesting to European capitals. In 2021, Lithuania stepped up its trade relationship with Taipei, following which Taiwan announced USD200m in funds to invest in Lithuania’s strategic sectors and a USD1bn-credit fund to bolster Lithuania following a trade embargo imposed by Beijing on the Baltic state.64 The credit fund will reportedly focus on areas of cooperation at the centre of US–China trade competition: semiconductor talent, semiconductor development, biotechnologies, finance, satellites and scientific research.