The Taiwan Island Government applied for CPTPP, less than a week after Beijing announced it also applied to join this organization.

Leaders of Taiwan Economic Agency Wang Mei-Hua.

Today's Taiwan media today involves economic officials Chen Chern-Chyi said the leaders of the economic agency Wang Mei-Hua will be specific to the island government to apply for a comprehensive partnership agreement and

Currently Taiwan economic authorities have not commented on information.

Taiwan's move takes place less than a week after the Chinese Ministry of Trade announced to apply for a CPTPP accession.

Taiwan was out of many international organizations for a Chinese policy, considering the island as a part of China's unified territorial territory.

The precursor of CPTPP is that TPP consists of 12 members, which is considered an important economic block to balance China's rising power.

CPTPP currently includes 11 Australian Members, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, New Zealand, Peru and Vietnam.

He was in January also applied for CPTPP to increase commercial links with this area after leaving the European Union (EU).