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This article talks about how Taiwan's standard of living has passed Japan's. Although Japan's GDP per capita itself is still far larger than that of Taiwan, when taking into consideration of the price of the two markets, the real relative income for Taiwan is larger than that of Japan. The role that price plays here is that it serves as a clarifier of the numbers which may mislead the people into believing that the standard of living for Japanese people is twice as good as the Taiwanese's.

This article discusses a new trading bloc being formed called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This trading bloc would include countries such as Taiwan, New Zealand and Singapore. It shows the struggle it can be to form trading blocs, as this one has been proposed since 2006.