It is unrealistic for Taiwan to completely decouple from China, the self-ruled island's largest trading partner, Taiwan's Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Chen Chern-chyi said on Wednesday, despite growing tensions between Beijing and Taipei. Chen said China is the world's largest manufacturing power, the world's largest trading country, and Taiwan's largest trading partner. "With those facts, I don't see, frankly, in the near term we can completely decouple from China. That's not realistic," he said in English during the question-and-answer session of a briefing with foreign correspondents...
