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The development of the Taiwan issue, which remains one of the most serious challenges to global stability, has recently been marked by a number of notable events in the island’s foreign and domestic policy alike.

South Korea’s position on Taiwan clearly illustrates Seoul’s course of trying to maintain as much freedom of action as possible in dealing with China while remaining an ally of Washington.

The announcement at the end of October about the possible accession of Taiwan to the Luzon Economic Corridor (LEC) project, which was launched six months earlier by the United States, Japan and the Philippines, provides an opportunity to focus on new noteworthy developments in the increasingly tense situation in Southeast Asia