Taiwan to send Acer founder Stan Shih to Shenzhen Apec, calls for ‘equal footing’

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Taiwan plans to send Acer founder Stan Shih as its representative to the APEC leaders’ summit in Shenzhen, where Taiwan participates as Chinese Taipei. Taipei has urged Beijing to ensure its delegation is treated with dignity amid longstanding political sensitivities over Taiwan’s representation.

Taiwan will send Stan Shih, founder of computer giant Acer, to the Apec leaders’ summit in Shenzhen next week and has urged Beijing to ensure its delegation is treated with “dignity”. Taiwan has been a member economy of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum under the name “Chinese Taipei” since 1991. But the self-ruled island’s leaders have traditionally not attended the summit due to political sensitivities and objections from Beijing. Instead, Taipei is usually represented by a business...