Introduction
Perhaps there is something about playing hard to get. The more difficulty existing participants have concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, the more eager outside countries have been to join. Taiwan is the latest aspirant: President Ma Ying-jeou has made the pursuit of TPP membership a top priority. It is not especially difficult to see why Taiwan would want to join the TPP; it is somewhat harder to see how it might pull off the feat.
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